Distinguished, Architect

If you could spend 100% of your time painting the future of commerce on a canvas that will touch over one billion consumers, and had the strength of the #1 Fortune 500 Company behind you, what would it look like?

By bringing together retail, online, mobile, and social with our 11,000+ stores and clubs around the world, Walmart is creating a seamless experience for customers and members to shop in the way that is most convenient for them—anytime and anywhere. When you combine our unmatched assets in retail with our commitment to building best-in-class commerce capabilities, we are positioned to serve customers in ways no one else can.

You will jump in and help design and architect systems that drive commerce around the world. You will solve complex technical challenges such as integrating multiple data systems via multiple protocols, implementing solutions that can provide real-time decisions for millions of our customers, and help migrating to public cloud. Your knowledge of databases, systems, API design, networking, security, and platforms will allow you to translate business requirements into live designs that will serve our customers around the world.

You will use a lot of knowledge, negotiation with your partners, proof of concepts and some "magic”. You will need customer focus, obsession on great execution, and a data-driven approach to provide the best architectural designs.

Design technical architecture solutions that span multiple commerce platform and include integration with multiple systems.

Design the right interfaces and technologies to make solutions accessible by multiple teams.

Focus on the end customer experience while making sure your designs are resilient.

Build partnerships with cross-discipline team members.

Analyze current solution designs to optimize and provide design improvements to handle the growth of the business.

Mentor teams to define design and development standards, engineering practices and incidents management.

Leverage business and domain acumen to interpret and translate business requirements to architecture/technology plans.

You are an architect with experience working in commerce and eCommerce products.

You are customer focused and understand the architectural fundamentals for cloud-native solutions, preferably in Azure or GCP.

You have a passion for large and complex platforms and how to optimize your customers’ experience.

A technical mindset with great attention to detail.

You understand how to use modern development methodologies.

10+ years experience in software development.

5+ years as a technical architect.

Experience interacting with your business and product partners to gather the right requirements.

Demonstrated experience in delivering software using Agile methodologies.

Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.

Expertise with cloud technologies such Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Experience working with teams across multiple locations. Distributed office working experience with a US headquarters.

Excellent technical abilities with strong business, organizational and analytical skills.

At 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.

You 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…