Associate Fellow I, Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Associate Fellow I role is a hands-on role that supports architectural designs and advisory within the Platform team. This is a highly technical role positioned uniquely to drive disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess. The right candidate would be required to go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs, transcending functional boundaries.  They would also be responsible for curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team. 

About Team: 
Our team is focused on developing a streamlined, dependable company that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and Associate Digital Experience (ADE). We also provide a variety of services such as procurement, supplier portfolio management, merchandising master data, and analytics. From developing HR chatbots and virtual assistants to creating invoice solutions and facilitating legal changes, we help drive efficiency across Walmart globally. 

What you'll do:

The Associate Fellow I role is a hands-on role that centrally supports architectural designs and advisory for multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role will lead overall tech strategy & architecture across a business area. Senior engineer individual contributor roles help drive disruptive growth across our top priorities and can be game changers through:

• Depth focus
• Building systems
• Mentoring and teaching engineers
• Driving holistic outcomes
• Being a central resource

In this role, you will provide direct support and engagement to engineering teams, improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise.  This role contributes towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. You will work to elevate the entire engineering organization and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems. 

Some key responsibilities include:

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
• Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers within ADE, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
• Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.

What you'll bring:

• Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment.
• Familiar with new technology trends.
• A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
• Strong knowledge of the following: 
• Packaged software releases 
• Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Scala)
• Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering)
• Experience or proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams.

Preferred experiences and exposures: 

• Agile methodologies.
• Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
• Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
• Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Ways of Working:

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:   

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.

15 years’ experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

10790 PARKRIDGE DR. SUITE 200, RESTON, VA 20191, United States of America