SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 31, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Senior Director - Global Catalog Platform
Global Catalog sits at the heart of Walmart's commerce ecosystem, powering product experiences across online and in-store journeys for millions of customers worldwide. It enables suppliers and sellers to efficiently create and manage product experiences while helping customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products with confidence. By powering high-quality product information, rich content, and intelligent commerce experiences, Catalog plays a critical role in connecting customers, suppliers, and sellers across one of the world's largest retail platforms. As Walmart continues to transform retail through people, technology, and AI, Global Catalog is helping shape the future of commerce through innovative capabilities that serve customers, suppliers, sellers, and associates around the world.
The Senior Director of Engineering will be based in the Bengaluru office and will lead a core area within Global Catalog. Working with peer engineering leaders and partners across Product, Business, and Data Science, this leader will be responsible for modernizing product content processing and advancing scalable catalog capabilities that support Walmart's global commerce experiences.
What You'll Do
- Own the engineering strategy and execution for core product content processing systems, which serve as a source of truth for product content used across Walmart's digital product experiences, including product detail pages.
- Lead the evolution of scalable pipelines that process product content from suppliers, sellers, and external brand sources, including images and videos, within defined service-level expectations, while advancing reusable capabilities for matching, ranking, merging, variants, and relationship processing to improve the accuracy, consistency, and quality of product content at scale.
- Guide the architecture for emerging agentic interactions where they intersect with Catalog, partnering with enterprise teams to align on reusable patterns and platform capabilities.
- Define and execute the technology roadmap for this portfolio, balancing foundational platform investments with near-term business priorities and customer outcomes.
- Partner with Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations leaders to clarify priorities, make informed trade-offs, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers, sellers, suppliers, merchants, and associates.
- Lead the design and operation of scalable, reliable, secure, and resilient distributed systems across the assigned Global Catalog portfolio.
- Develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent, fostering clear ownership, sound engineering practices, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Improve platform effectiveness, catalog quality, engineering productivity, and cost efficiency through data, automation, and appropriate use of AI.
What You'll Bring
- 18+ years of technology and engineering leadership experience, leading engineering managers, senior engineers, and architects. Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Experience leading platform, commerce, marketplace, or enterprise product engineering teams and delivering meaningful business and customer outcomes at scale.
- Provides architectural guidance and solution review across multiple backend (for example, Java, Python, Go, Rust), technologies.
- Drive standardization and reuse of architectural patterns, frameworks, and AI tooling across domains to accelerate time-to-market, reduce technical debt, and ensure architectural integrity.
- Strong technical and architectural judgment across modern software platforms, cloud technologies, data-intensive systems, AI/ML-enabled capabilities, and platform engineering practices.
- Ability to define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps while balancing foundational investments, operational priorities, and near-term delivery commitments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience building alignment across Engineering, Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations through collaboration and influence.
- Proven ability to build and develop high-performing engineering teams, strengthen leadership capability, and foster a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, with experience in eCommerce, marketplace, commerce platforms, or large-scale product organisations preferred.
- This is an opportunity to lead a core Global Catalog engineering portfolio and help strengthen the product content capabilities that support Walmart's customers, sellers, suppliers, and associates worldwide.
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 expert's 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.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
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.