Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Walmart · Chennai · 14+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-09
Tech stack: Azure, GCP, GraphQL, Java, Kafka, Python, React, SQL
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About the role
Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
Responsibilities:
- Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap. When you add the numbers, you will realize that this role will probably help influence the largest pool of customers anywhere in the world. If that gives you goose bumps - then you are the kind of candidate, we want.
- You will be responsible for development of developer facing applications that are used to boost the developer productivity and experience of Walmart developers.
- Lead a team of top-notch engineers to successfully build and deploy cutting edge platforms. Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing
- Design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes); write and develop code; oversee software design; review unit test cases; communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders; direct project team and cross functional teams; enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects; ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interact with project manager to provide input on project plan; and provide leadership to the project team.
- You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, GCP, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, GraphQL, Python, data solutions etc.
- Focus on goal completion and support teams to overcome the challenges in implementation
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the roadmap of the products
- Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
- Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
- Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
- Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
- Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in architecture and design patterns, cloud-native microservices, and building resilient, reliable, high-quality software.
- Strong technical mindset with hands-on product development experience and the ability to deep-dive into complex technical issues.
- Exposure to program management practices, including dependency management and cross-team development tracking.
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms is a strong advantage.
- Proven ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
- Thought leadership and the ethos of a people-first leader.
- Demonstrated success working effectively with distributed, global teams in a collaborative and productive manner.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a consistent track record of delivering outcomes in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Strong sense of ownership with a focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and continuous innovation.
- Ability to guide teams through technical challenges and drive clarity during execution.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams, functions, and geographies.
- Ability to influence, align, and collaborate with diverse partners and stakeholders.
- Passion for quick learning and adapting in a dynamic global environment.
- An Engineering Degree - B. E/B. Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
- 14+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 5 years of experience with agile principles and practices. Experience in leading Scrum teams.
- Hands on experience in building scalable cloud native software platforms/applications
- Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
- Strong Java/J2EE, React skill ( good to have)
- Strong understanding of architecture, database, messaging, (Kafka services)
- SQL/Cosmos/Azure database proficiency
- Experience in leading and delivering full-stack developer platform applications would be desirable
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in architecture and design patterns, cloud-native microservices, and building resilient, reliable, high-quality software.
- Strong technical mindset with hands-on product development experience and the ability to deep-dive into complex technical issues.
- Exposure to program management practices, including dependency management and cross-team development tracking.
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms is a strong advantage.
- Proven ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
- Thought leadership and the ethos of a people-first leader.
- Demonstrated success working effectively with distributed, global teams in a collaborative and productive manner.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a consistent track record of delivering outcomes in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Strong sense of ownership with a focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and continuous innovation.
- Ability to guide teams through technical challenges and drive clarity during execution.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams, functions, and geographies.
- Ability to influence, align, and collaborate with diverse partners and stakeholders.
- Passion for quick learning and adapting in a dynamic global environment.
- An Engineering Degree - B. E/B. Tech/MS in any stream
- Computer Science preferred.
- 14+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 5 years of experience with agile principles and practices.
- Experience in leading Scrum teams.
- Hands on experience in building scalable cloud native software platforms/applications
- Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
- Strong Java/J2EE, React skill ( good to have)
- Strong understanding of architecture, database, messaging, (Kafka services)
- SQL/Cosmos/Azure database proficiency
- Experience in leading and delivering full-stack developer platform applications would be desirable
Responsibilities
- Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems.
- He/she is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.
- When you add the numbers, you will realize that this role will probably help influence the largest pool of customers anywhere in the world.
- If that gives you goose bumps - then you are the kind of candidate, we want.
- You will be responsible for development of developer facing applications that are used to boost the developer productivity and experience of Walmart developers.
- Lead a team of top-notch engineers to successfully build and deploy cutting edge platforms.
- Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements.
- translating requirements into technical solutions.
- directing and reviewing.
- Design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes); write and develop code; oversee software design; review unit test cases; communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders; direct project team and cross functional teams; enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects; ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interact with project manager to provide input on project plan; and provide leadership to the project team.
- You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, GCP, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, GraphQL, Python, data solutions etc.
- Focus on goal completion and support teams to overcome the challenges in implementation
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the roadmap of the products
- Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
- Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
- Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
- Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.