Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position: (USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, leads platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and roadmap milestones. This role oversees shared infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks to support scalable, secure development while driving full lifecycle management across multiple teams. The position champions Dev Ops practices, cloud cost optimization, and technical excellence to deliver high-availability systems. Collaborating with cross-functional partners, the role guides architectural decisions, mentors engineering talent, and manages complex initiatives to achieve business objectives with a focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

About the team:

The Enterprise People Technology team leads the deployment and adoption of advanced People technology solutions impacting millions globally. As part of Walmart Global Tech's Enterprise Business Services, the team enhances technology for Finance, People, and Associate Digital Experience. Focused on continuous improvement, it delivers scalable, robust products that empower managers and associates to prioritize core business goals. Leveraging expertise in software development lifecycle, solution design, and project management, the team drives technical leadership to build efficient, high-quality technology aligned with strategic objectives and stakeholder needs.

What you'll do:

* Manage a high performing team of 10-12 engineers who work across multiple technology stacks.

* Drive design, development, implementation and documentation

* Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics

* Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.

* Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products.

* Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.

* Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products

* Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams.

* Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demo days etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events

* Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within USA and across the globe.

* Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation

* Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance across development and production environments.

* Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in production operations.

* Implement effective observability strategies using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

* Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnerships

What you'll bring:

* Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams.

* Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.

* Hands on experience building Java-Scala-Spark based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable

* A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving

* Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.

* Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC

* Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Possesses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.

* Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.

* Experience working…