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This role requires expertise in cloud-native architecture and AI/ML integration to build intelligent, high-availability solutions that serve thousands of developers and engineers. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business objectives. Your contributions will advance Walmart’s technology vision through innovation, continuous improvement, and effective execution of complex technical initiatives.About the team:\nThe GTP IaaS Cost and Optimization team advances cloud financial intelligence within Walmart Global Tech. They oversee the complete lifecycle of cloud cost data, delivering observability tools that reveal spending patterns and anomalies. By transforming cloud billing and usage data into actionable insights, the team enables measurable savings. Collaborating across functions, they design and implement initiatives to reduce waste, improve resource efficiency, and maximize cloud investment value. Their work supports scalable, reliable, and optimized cloud architectures aligned with enterprise standards and operational excellence.\nWhat you'll do...\nWork across the data stack: BigQuery, Airflow, MySQL, and Redis, to model data, build ETL processes and data lakes, and manage data lifecycle end to end.\nBuild efficient, scalable APIs that deliver low-latency access to curated data for applications, analytics, and AI consumers, optimizing query performance and cost along the way.\nBuild and orchestrate data pipelines, develop DAGs in Airflow, and design event-driven workflows with Pub/Sub.\nImplement data monitoring and Data Quality Frameworks to ensure trusted, high-integrity data.\nChampion DevOps and CI/CD practices to maintain operational readiness, observability, and performance of services.\nAnalyze cloud billing and usage data to surface spend patterns and optimization opportunities.\nWhat You'll Bring: \nKnowledge of cloud billing and FinOps practices, chargeback models, unit cost metrics, and common cost optimization levers.\nTechnical leadership skills, architectural decision making, and operational due diligence.\nExperience across the data stack, including BigQuery, Airflow, MySQL, and Redis, data modeling, ETL, data lakes, and data lifecycle management.\nExperience building and orchestrating data pipelines, including DAG development in Airflow and event-driven designs using Pub/Sub.\nExperience implementing data monitoring and Data Quality Frameworks to ensure trusted, high-integrity data.\nExperience integrating data into AI solutions, ensuring pipelines deliver reliable, well-governed data for models and AI-driven applications.\nAt Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.\nYou 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.\nFor information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.\nLive Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. \nEligibility 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. \nFor information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.\nBentonville, Arkansas US-09050: The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00\nBellevue, Washington US-11663 | Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279: The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00\nSunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00\nAdditional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.\nAdditional compensation for certain positions may also include : \n- Stock\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\n\nMinimum Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.\nOption 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.\nPreferred Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.\nMaster’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 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.Primary Location...\n805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. 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