(USA) Group Director, Software Engineering
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Job Location:
Bentonville, AR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 195000 - 370000
Posted on:
19 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary...
What youll do...
Group Director International TechnologyJoin Walmart as a Group Director International Technology within our Global Technology organization where your work will directly support the daily operations of associates across nearly 5000 Walmart stores and clubs internationally. Your leadership will help enable millions of associates to serve customers better every dayacross stores clubs and digital experiences in Canada Mexico Central America Chile and China.
Yes we are the Fortune #1 company. But youll quickly find that Walmart is a place where complex global challenges meet a deeply human mission. At Walmart we encourage you to bring your whole self to work and empower you from day one to do the best work of your lifework that helps people save money and live better.
About Walmart Global Tech & International Domain
Walmart Global Tech is a world-class organization delivering scalable resilient and innovative technology solutions that power Walmarts global operations. Within Global Tech the International Store & Club Operations and Transactions domains are responsible for the technology platforms that enable associate workflows inventory accuracy pricing merchandising checkout and payment
experiences across international markets.
Position Summary As Group Director International Technology you will provide strategic engineering platform and operational leadership across multiple interdependent domains that support Walmart Internationals most critical associate and customer experiences. This role is accountable for shaping and executing a multi-domain engineering strategy governing architecture and delivery and ensuring reliability security and scalability of Tier 0 and AI-enabled systems across global markets. You will serve as a senior technology leader and advisor translating enterprise and Global Tech strategy into actionable roadmaps aligning investment and capacity and driving consistent engineering excellence. This role plays a critical part in advancing Walmarts AI-first transformation while ensuring responsible resilient and cost-efficient adoption at scale.
What You Will Do
Strategic Engineering & Platform Leadership
- Translate enterprise and Global Tech strategy into an integrated multi-domain engineering and platform roadmap.
- Align portfolios platforms technical debt and capacity planning to customer and associate outcomes across international markets.
- Shape and influence engineering strategy at an enterprise level (P4 expectation).
Operational Strategy Resilience & Reliability
- Own operational strategy for mission-critical software and AI-enabled services.
- Define reliability objectives SLOs and continuity strategies for Tier 0 systems.
- Drive DevOps maturity incident management cloud cost optimization and resilient human-in-the-loop AI patterns.
Architecture & Solution Design Governance
- Establish and enforce reference architectures design principles and technical guardrails across distributed systems data and AI platforms.
- Review and guide major architectural designs to ensure scalability performance security and reliability.
- Coach architects and senior engineers to design for long-term sustainability.
Program Portfolio & Delivery Governance
- Govern a portfolio of complex cross-domain multi-quarter programs.
- Align roadmaps manage interdependencies and drive transparent execution and risk management.
- Leverage program management frameworks and GenAI tools to improve delivery predictability and decision-making.
Engineering Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Set and raise the bar for engineering quality code standards and operational practices.
- Use data-driven metrics experimentation and legacy rationalization to improve speed reliability and platform adoption.
- Institutionalize best practices across domains through coaching and measurable outcomes.
Stakeholder Influence & Value Realization
- Act as a senior technology advisor to business product data and program leaders.
- Translate complex technical trade-offs into business-relevant insights.
- Build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups around shared priorities investments and outcomes.
Talent Culture & Associate Experience
- Build develop and retain a high-performing diverse engineering organization.
- Mentor and coach senior leaders while fostering inclusive collaborative team environments.
- Establish structured learning paths in architecture AI/ML and program leadership that promote continuous growth and well-being.
Innovation & AI Adoption
- Champion responsible adoption of AI/ML and agentic AI across products and engineering workflows.
- Identify high-value AI use cases standardize tools and patterns and track realized value and risk.
- Lead organization-wide change toward AI-first ways of working.
Key Skills & Qualifications
- Proven experience leading large-scale multi-domain engineering organizations in a global environment.
- Strong background in distributed systems platform architecture cloud-native design and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated success governing complex portfolios and cross-domain delivery.
- Experience driving AI/ML adoption responsibly at scale.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence across business and technology leadership.
- Passion for building inclusive teams and developing future technology leaders.
For information about benefits and eligibility see .
The annual salary range for this position is $195000.00 - $370000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock At Walmart we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind body and wallet. Health benefits include medical vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k) stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave) parental leave family care leave bereavement jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability company discounts Military Leave Pay adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation sick leave holidays or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws where applicable. For information about PTO see Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition books and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility see .
The annual salary range for this position is $195000.00 - $370000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science computer engineering computer information systems software engineering or related area and 8 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 10 years experience in software engineering or related area.
5 years supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no preferred qualifications.
Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 7 years experience in software engineeringPrimary Location...
701 Respect Dr Bentonville AR 72716 United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Walmart started with one man. In 1962, Sam Walton began with just one store and one mission: help people save money so they could live better. As a growing global digital enterprise and with over 11,500 stores, we maintain Mr. Sam’s vision, but now, we are able to help more customers ... View more
