Walmart Senior Director Software Engineering – Transactional Systems Applied AI 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

990368014

Position Summary

• Develop and lead the overall AI strategy for the organization, aligning it with business objectives.

• Identify areas where AI can drive business value and develop solutions to address these opportunities.

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies (e.g., Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Explainability, etc.) and their applicability to the organization's needs.

• Oversee the roadmap, development, and deployment of AI projects across various departments, delivering successful implementation and ROI.

• Assess and mitigate risks associated with AI projects, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Lead a team of AI engineers, data scientists, and researchers, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance management.

• Manage budgets and resource allocation for AI initiatives, striving optimal use of resources and budgetary constraints.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (payments, fraud and risk, data intelligence, compliance, fraud strategy, customer care, operations, etc.), including business stakeholders, product managers, and IT leaders to achieve effective implementation and adoption of AI-powered solutions.

Key Skills

• Business Strategy, Data Strategy, AI and ML, Data Analysis, Stakeholder and Change Management

• Experienced leader in retail or financial services industry

• Define vision and strategies for product content creation at Walmart, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying opportunities, building business cases, and gaining alignment in multiple internal and external stakeholder communities

• Experience in building data products leveraging data science (AI and ML) – for fraud and compliance risk management.

• Strong experience in successfully building and managing high-performing product teams

• Passion for technology, willingness to dive deep into the technical products Walmart is building, and commitment to learning and expanding technical knowledge

• Build compelling business cases and ROIs and proactively drive business insights and optimizations.

• Developing and delivering on the financial plan for area of responsibility.

• Developing and providing recommendations to business on long-term investments (for example, acquisitions, disruptive technology)

• Capitalizing on domain expertise; identifying and anticipating market opportunities based on an in-depth understanding of the market and competition; overseeing the execution of competitive assessments, identifying and facilitating disruptive innovation opportunities; approving business cases; prioritizing and allocating resources; and approving objectives and key performance indicators.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

• Experience building and leading a scalable and successful GenAI initiative

• 10 years’ experience gathering, identifying, defining, and communicating requirements

• 8 years’ experience consulting and advising business partners utilizing detailed analysis

• 5 years' experience building and leading high performing teams

• Proven track record of successful product creation with measurable and significant business impact.