Group Director, Software Engineering

Position Summary

Lead a multi‑domain software engineering organization responsible for building and scaling the иқ core merchandising applications, workflows, and sharedату platforms that power how merchants plan, buy, price, promote, and analyze merchandise performance. The portfolio spans Planning & Forecasting, Space and Assortment Enablement, Product & Supplier Management (including item governance and discovery), Buying Execution (including cost and allowance processes), Pricing/Promotions/Events, Markdown Execution, and Analytics & Performance Review—with a clear focus on merchant productivity, execution accuracy, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.

This leader owns strategy‑to‑execution across multiple product domains and dependencies: setting technical direction, establishing outcome‑based roadmaps and metrics, guiding architecture and platform decisions, and ensuring high‑quality delivery and production operations. The role also serves as a culture champion and people leader, developing strong leaders and teams while modeling the Walmart Development Lifecycle® and Walmart values.

This leader owns the software engineering strategy, delivery, and operational excellence for a portfolio of merchant‑facing applications, platforms, and shared experience frameworks that enable key merchandising capabilities across the end‑to‑end lifecycle.

• Planning & Forecasting – engineering ownership of planning workflow experiences and supporting services that enable merchants to define and manage merchandise plans over time (including calendar‑driven planning and execution enablement).
• Space & Assortment Enablement – build and operate software that supports micro space/layout decisioning workflows used to plan and optimize space execution.
• Product & Supplier Management – engineering accountability for experiences and services that support item discovery, item governance, and accurate item/location information—foundational to upstream and downstream merchandising workflows.
• Buying Execution – lead teams building software that enables buying execution workflows—supporting negotiation processes, allowance management, and cost execution—improving speed, accuracy, auditability, and compliance.
• Pricing, Promotions, and Events – own engineering outcomes for pricing and promotional/event execution tooling, including operational experiences that help ensure accurate downstream execution.
• Intensive Markdown Strategy Execution – build and scale software that supports markdown execution and optimization workflows, enabling consistent, timely, and measurable markdown actions royaume tribuniv.
• Analytics & Performance Review – engineering ownership of experiences that provide merchants with daily performance visibility and insights to support decisions and…