Staff Solution Architect | Marketplace | Sunnyvale

*Please note that Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this role. **

About Team:

This is the team which builds reusable technologies that aid in acquiring customers, onboarding and empowering merchants besides ensuring a seamless experience for both these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment, adhering to the Walmart philosophy - Everyday Low Cost. In addition to ushering in affordability, we also create personalized experiences for customers the omnichannel way, across all channels - in-store, on the mobile app and websites.

Marketplace is the gateway to domestic and international Third-Party sellers; we enable them to manage their end-to-end onboarding, catalog management, order fulfillment, return & refund management. Our team is responsible for the entire API ecosystem which enables sellers and channel partners to integrate with Walmart. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.

What you’ll do:

As a Solution Architect you'll be responsible to:

• Design and implement solutions that help Channel Partners platforms integrate with Walmart APIs, ensuring seamless data exchange and accuracy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and business , to understand requirements and develop solutions that meet partner needs.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API documentation, and integration guides.
• Find and scale the solution architecture practice for Walmart Marketplace. Articulate vision, strategy, and objectives.
• Document best practice integration pattern for each use case supported on MP API platform and publish on developer portal.
• Work backwards from customer solution perspective to identify gaps in API capabilities.
• Reach out to and remediate integrators having adopted integration anti-patterns
• Write code samples and developer sample integrations / projects
• Provide technical consults / guidance to strategic integrators, during and after onboarding
• Develop solution architecture programs. Examples:
• Integration health scoring
• Built for Shopify
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to integrations, working closely with partners and internal teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities for innovation and process improvement.
• Collaborate with Walmart's security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet Walmart's security and data privacy standards.
• Work closely with partners to ensure successful onboarding and ongoing support, providing technical guidance and training as needed.

What you’ll bring:

Minimum qualifications:

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 10 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
• 4 years of experience in software development or solution architecture, with a focus on integrations and APIs.
• Experience in building API's
• Strong understanding of Walmart's APIs and integration protocols.
• Experience with integration technologies such as RESTful APIs, SOAP, and message queues.
• Proficient in at least one programming language (Java preferred).
• Experience with cloud-based platforms such as Azure or GCP.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies such as Agile and Scrum.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Qualifications:

• Ecommerce domain experience
• 0 to 1 experience founding and scaling solution architecture practice

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.

Flexible, Hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.