Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

GDF sits at the core of Walmart's AI & Data organization, building the foundational data platforms that make it possible for every team at Walmart — technical or non-technical — to build with trustworthy, well-governed, discoverable data.

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team(s) responsible for designing, building, and operating GDF's core data platform capabilities - pipelines, processing frameworks, storage layers
• Own the engineering roadmap, technical execution, and delivery of scalable, high-throughput data services built on languages/frameworks including Java, Python, and Spark
• Guide architecture and system design decisions across distributed data processing systems, batch and streaming pipelines, data lake/lakehouse storage
• Drive the design and evolution of Big Data capabilities - data ingestion, transformation, quality, observability, and governance
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and platform/security teams to deliver reliable

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• Java
• Python
• Kafka
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• LLMs
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• ETL
• Spark
• System design
• CI/CD
• Hadoop
• Data modelling