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Walmart USA Senior Distinguished I Architect United States, California, Sunnyvale 206953969
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What you'll do...
Under this position, you will lead a large developer community spanned across several orgs and business area, making strides in Walmart eCommerce across their respective markets and businesses. You will be responsible for the central platform behind supporting these mobile applications. You will lead strategy, technical roadmap, resolving shortcomings with a future looking perspective, and run the business.
What you'll do:
As the Sr Distinguished Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, mentor and guide engineering professionals, and drive innovation to deliver high-quality, scalable, and robust software solutions.
- Architectural Leadership : Lead the creation and maintenance of our technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements.
- System Design and Scalability : Architect complex software systems, ensuring performance, security, and scalability needs are met.
- Technical Guidance and Mentoring : Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
- Cross-functional Collaboration : Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, UX/UI, Quality Assurance, and DevOps.
- Code Review and Standards : Establish and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and development best practices through thorough code reviews.
- Innovation and Research : Stay at the forefront of technological advancements, conducting research to identify emerging tools and methodologies.
- Project Management and Delivery : Collaborate with project managers to define project scopes, milestones, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with architectural goals.
- Collaborative Communication : Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, promoting a culture of open communication and collaboration.
What you'll bring:
- Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of software products with a large user base.
- Strong track record in an architect role with large-scale software development data backed services and applications.
- A clear vision for futuristic mobile app architecture design and great communication skills to articulate that to all levels of stakeholders.
- Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
- Thorough understanding of Frontend technologies, especially in mobile area with a keen eye on scalability, performance, developer productivity and other factors that apply to operating at a large scale.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
- Business acumen; combining technical vision with business insights.
Requires knowledge of: Architectural principles; Systems and environment behavior; Architectural Styles, Patterns and plans; Architectural standards; Non-functional System performance parameters;
Technology Strategy: To design the plan for customizing/creating the architecture for multiple products/platforms within a domain and validate the technical priorities for the product/solution architecture. Define the architecture blueprint for various functional products within a domain. Define the architecture to build cross- system interactions ensuring reusability, consistency and integration. Identify, evaluate and recommend solutions and enhancement to framework to achieve desired performance and scalability. Prepare technical papers broadly outlining the approaches to be taken in building multiple systems. Define the tech stack for various products, platforms and solutions highlighting the pros and cons of each and also providing recommendations for future solutions.
Requires knowledge of: Coding standards and guidelines; Coding languages (E.g. Swift, Kotlin, Java), frameworks(E.g. iOS SDK, Android SDK and underlying/related frameworks), tools (E.g. Lint, Gradle, iOS Build Tools, Mobile app profilers, etc) and Platforms (E.g. iOS, Android);Quality, Safety and Security (Mobile apps and Frontend Security standards, PCI etc.) standards; Emerging tools and technologies; Telemetry (Splunk, Grafana); CI / CD; Code Management Tools; SDLC, platforms (Android, iOS etc.), and environments for software coding/configuration and scripting. Guide the team on coding patterns, languages and frameworks in line with evolving trends in the industry (Ex: reactive vs. imperative etc.) and drive scalability and security. Drive Implementation of telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain. Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create/configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Oversee the codes executed by team in line with specified technical/business requirements. Arrange project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Testing or any other process across the domain. Conduct code reviews for code developed by the team. Drive security of the Code Base and ensure that no security violations are introduced.
Requires knowledge of: Risk analysis methodologies; Cost Analysis; Business objectives; Classification of requirements; Domain Knowledge; User stories concepts; Functional / Non-Functional Requirements; Scoping and Estimation
To conduct comprehensive analysis of the requirements/updates/modifications to create long term solutions to meet the requirements. Design methods of performing gaps/updates/modification analysis efficiently and accurately. Contribute to design of reusable frameworks / processes to capture business/customer requirements. Evaluate and introduce appropriate industry tools and frameworks to capture requirements better. Provide guidelines / direction / oversight around scoping / translation of requirements into epics / stories, establish guidelines for trade-offs.
Requires knowledge of: Knowledge of multiple domains (mobile apps, mobile apps release, network, security, etc.); Architectural principles; Systems and environment behavior; Architectural Styles, Patterns and plans; Architectural standards.
Requires knowledge of: Verbal/Non-verbal behaviors; Application and allocation of Business Communication styles/techniques in ambiguous and challenging situations; Communication channels/mediums; Interpersonal skills and universal relationship building with ability to connect seemingly unconnected parties; Influencing styles.
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
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 $208,000.00-$416,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock Minimum Qualifications...Preferred Qualifications...
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