Director, Software Engineering DevOps

About the position

Walmart is seeking a passionate DevOps Leader to address large customer challenges across a horizontal organization. The role involves building reusable technologies for customer acquisition, onboarding, and merchant empowerment, focusing on end-to-end supply chain fulfillment in both e-commerce and physical stores. The DevOps functional owner will collaborate with various teams to establish a robust DevOps strategy, define a technical roadmap, and foster a strong culture of ownership within the team.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop and guide high-performing talent.
• Define a long-term talent strategy across technology.
• Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for the team.
• Help define the technical and process roadmap and own the entire DevOps end-to-end.
• Work closely with various business stakeholders to drive execution of multiple business plans and technologies.
• Improve, optimize, and identify opportunities for efficient support and development processes.
• Handle budget planning, spending, and tracking for your area of responsibility.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Drive changes across multiple areas spanning domains.
• Set, define, and implement best practices and industry standards to raise the quality bar in DevOps.
• Focus on generating intellectual property assets on DevOps tools and techniques.

Requirements

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream, preferably Computer Science.
• 18+ years of relevant experience leading operations/development teams for large customer bases.
• Knowledge of industry's legal rules and guidelines.
• Experience in executing at least two transition projects and setting up successful operations teams.
• In-depth knowledge of diverse business functions and principles (e.g., supply chain, finance, customer service).
• Knowledge of procurement processes and managing budgets and financials.
• Systems, software engineering, and architecture knowledge.
• Understanding of emerging technologies such as Cloud, Distributed computing, and big data.
• ITSM knowledge and industrial best practices.
• Strong development background, preferably in Java/J2EE.
• Good understanding of CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving.
• Experience across the product development SDLC.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area with 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Background in creating inclusive digital experiences and knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices.

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• Stock purchase plan
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Multiple health plans
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program covering tuition, books, and fees.