Software Engineering Director jobs in Washington

As a Director, Software Engineering you will be part of the People Technology team within Walmart Global Tech. We are defining the leading edge of technology to provide innovative solutions to our business customers to help support the millions of Associates employed at Walmart. As part of People Tech Platform, we have embarked on an exciting journey of modernizing and transforming the People software which supports the US and international associates, hiring managers and recruiters.

Require a leader in ServiceNow Eng space with a span of 30 engineers across USA and IDC as well as 50 hourly associates for call center - call quality control.

What you'll do...

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

About Team:

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

• Influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple integration teams focused on transformative products within our People Technology space.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with the business stakeholders with more engagement, collaboration, and facetime beyond the 4ITB meetings.
• Provide guidance in applying the right architectural pattern for the modernization of the applications by analyzing the gaps between existing architecture and new business requirements.
• Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications.
• Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.
• Knowledge of Software architecture, Distributed systems, Scalability, Design patterns, Disaster Recovery.
• Technical leadership in building a complex microservices based platform or product that are highly reliable, and scalable.
• Drive technical impact analysis, conduct RCAs with corrective actions for both short & long term fixes and prevent them from re-occurring.
• Develop close partnerships with our Product, People API, and Workday teams to drive innovation as we deliver on commitments to our business customers.
• Operating with excellence – Set an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others.
• Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security.
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy.

What you'll bring:

• Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development. Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred.
• Technical Proficiency in one or more of the languages such as Java, Python, React Native, Node JS, React JS, GraphQL
• Experience working on a compensation or total rewards platform
• Experience working with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience in all areas of engineering including DevOps, Chaos Engineering, SRE, and on-call rotations to assure service availability and operational excellence.
• Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence & solid system design.
• Experience in 360º people management, growing & grooming teams and to ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps.

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.