Senior Director, Software Engineering
Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Position Summary...
Join our dynamic and forward-thinking engineering organization as our Senior Director Software Engineering relating directly to the Walmart Catalog Platform Team, where you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements of our omni channel catalog. We are seeking a visionary leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business asks and architecting the technical landscape for the future. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of platform modernization efforts in building a world class Technology platform for Walmart Business.What you'll do...
About Team:
The Enterprise Catalog platform team supports building high-quality omni channel catalog and platform components that make our sellers and suppliers successful by onboarding products and create a large set of assortments and enabling it to be served to our customers. Team is growing across Enterprise to scale and adopt to various international markets, and make Walmart grown across all markets. Critical goal of this role is to adopt platform to all international markets, build market specific features with a platform mindset, manage stakeholders through the adoption journey and provide enriched, high-quality catalog to millions of Walmart customers across global.
If you’re inspired by the opportunity to solve complex platform problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, this is the right place to join.
What you'll do:
The Senior Director of Software Engineering is a senior technology and people leader responsible for driving global strategy, delivery excellence, and organizational maturity.
This role is pivotal during a period of significant scale and transformation, requiring a leader who can balance visionary platform leadership, GenAI-driven innovation, operational rigor, and people leadership across large, globally distributed organizations. The Senior Director will partner closely with product, business, and operations leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, AI-enabled, and business-critical platforms, while building a strong and sustainable leadership pipeline for the future.
Key Responsibilities & Candidate Expectations
- Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Walmart’s global Catalog Platform, driving adoption across international markets while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy.
- Own end-to-end delivery for international catalog adoption, content quality, offer management, and eligibility services, ensuring consistent platform capabilities across all markets.
- Champion a platform-first mindset, driving maximum reuse of enterprise capabilities while ensuring market-specific enhancements are contributed back to the core platform for global scalability and long-term maintainability.
- Partner closely with Product, Business, Data Science, Architecture, and Market leadership to influence roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Build trusted relationships with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders, effectively managing competing priorities and aligning diverse teams toward common goals.
- Demonstrate agility in responding to evolving business needs, balancing strategic initiatives with operational priorities while making sound, data-driven decisions.
- Lead a high-performing engineering organization by developing leaders, fostering technical excellence, promoting engineering best practices, and creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices, including architecture governance, automation, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
- Establish measurable quality goals for catalog content and platform health, leveraging data, AI/ML, and engineering insights to continuously improve customer and seller experiences.
- Serve as the engineering leader for complex, multi-market initiatives, ensuring timely execution, risk mitigation, and alignment across globally distributed teams.
What you'll bring:
- 18+ years of experience in technology leadership, with significant experience leading large, global organizations.
- Proven experience building and scaling enterprise platforms using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka/Pub-Sub), and Cloud (GCP/Azure).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, platform engineering, data-intensive applications, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE principles, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience leading engineering teams delivering high-scale, globally distributed, mission-critical platforms with a focus on performance, resilience, and scalability.
- Exposure to AI/ML-driven data quality, search, recommendation, or catalog/content management systems is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large engineering organizations (80+ engineers), influence without authority, manage organizational change, and deliver results in a fast-paced, matrixed enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into technology execution and measurable outcomes.
- Deep experience in people leadership, organizational design, and leadership development.
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 experts 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 Work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 4 years’ supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.