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We build intelligent, high-throughput platforms that handle inventory management, demand sensing, order fulfillment, and logistics orchestration at Walmart scale. We innovate to lower the operational cost, provide greater value to the business and build the best in class experience to our Business Partners and Customers.\nWhat you'll do:\nDefine and own the end-to-end technical architecture for Wareshouse management System (WMS) platform services.\n\nAuthor and champion Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and design documents that set standards across the WMS platform.\n\nIdentify and proactively address systemic risks - single points of failure, scaling bottlenecks, data integrity gaps, and technical debt accumulation before they become incidents.\n\nRepresent WMS in cross-org architectural forums and drive alignment with shared platform teams (Cloud infra and data platform teams).\n\nOwn data modeling and persistence strategies across SQL & No-SQL databases.\n\nDrive AI-assisted spec generation workflows - using LLMs to translate product requirements and domain narratives into structured API specs and champion spec-first engineering across WMS.\n\nDesign & build scalable, high-throughput and low-latency Java-based microservices deployed on cloud; build Microservices with domain-driven design, event-driven patterns (Kafka), and API-first principles.\n\nDesign resilient distributed systems applying patterns such as orchestration, outbox pattern, circuit breaking, and idempotency across async workflows.\n\nImplement gRPC and REST APIs with strict OpenAPI contracts, backward-compatibility guarantees, and consumer-driven contract testing.\n\nEstablish frontend architecture standards for the WMS team - component library governance, state management patterns, accessibility compliance, and performance budgets.\n\nDesign & build Full-Stack Features using modern frontend frameworks (React, Node and Express JS) integrated with RESTful/GraphQL APIs.\n\nDesign with a platform-first mindset - designing shared and extensible capabilities that empower multiple teams to move faster without duplicating effort.\n\nAuthor and maintain Concord pipelines for CI/CD automation - build, test, canary deploy, and rollback orchestration across WMS microservices.\n\nDrive security compliance for all WMS deployments - keeping code compliant with enterprise standards, identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities.\n\nImplement observability-first engineering: structured logging, distributed tracing, and tracking through dashboards and alerts.\n\nMentor and technically sponsor senior and mid-level engineers - conducting architecture reviews, pairing on complex problems, and providing structured feedback on design documents and PRs.\n\nLead engineering excellence initiatives - test coverage uplift, latency reduction programs, incident retrospectives, and platform reliability improvements.\n\nChampion a culture of continuous innovation - actively identify and propose improvements to development workflows, and supply chain processes that reduce friction and create measurable business value.\n\nAddress complex problems quickly and efficiently in a high-impact environment.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\nEngineering degree in Computer Science or related technical field.\n\n12+ years of relevant experience in building cloud based highly resilient and scalable systems.\n\nExcellent technical knowledge in Object Oriented Programming and Frameworks - Java 17/21, Spring boot, Microservices, Rest API, Kafka, relational & NoSQL databases, React and Node JS.\n\nExpert level understanding of Software Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving and Agile Principles.\n\nAdvance level exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Azure, GCP, or AWS and containerisation ecosystem such as Docker, Kubernetes.\n\nAI/ML Exposure - Integrating ML model APIs / inference endpoints into production services; experience with GenAI tool adoptions.\n\nAbility to troubleshoot issues quickly and provide technical solutions to fix those issues.\n\nExceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills.\n\nAbout Walmart Global Tech\nImagine 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 experts 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.\nWe 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.\nFlexible, hybrid work\nWe use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. 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