DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary... What you'll do... About the team: The Transactions Engineering team part of Pre Purchase Experience Organization owns the platforms and services that power Walmart's customer purchasing journey—from Cart creation through Checkout, Payments, and Tender Planning. The team builds and operates highly scalable, secure, and resilient transaction systems that enable millions of customers to seamlessly complete purchases across digital and physical channels. The organization is responsible for ensuring a frictionless customer experience during the highest-intent stage of the shopping journey while safeguarding revenue, maintaining financial integrity, and supporting omnichannel commerce capabilities. The team partners closely with Product, Business, Finance, Operations, Risk, and Compliance organizations to deliver innovative transaction experiences that accelerate growth, increase customer trust, and improve operational effectiveness. What you'll do Own the end-to-end Cart, Checkout, Payments, and Tender Planning transaction experience, driving higher purchase completion, faster time-to-purchase, and reduced customer drop-off at the point of highest purchase intent. Lead the modernization of Cart and Checkout platforms, enabling the business to scale revenue efficiently while improving platform resilience, operational efficiency, and speed of delivery for new commerce capabilities. Enable flexible payment and tender experiences across Cart and Checkout, expanding customer choice while supporting improved order completion, offer attachment, and monetization outcomes. Ensure financial integrity, security, and regulatory compliance across all customer transactions, protecting revenue, reducing financial risk, and strengthening customer trust at enterprise scale. Deliver seamless omni-channel transaction experiences that allow customers to move consistently across digital and physical touchpoints, improving customer satisfaction and loyalty. Reduce revenue leakage and post-purchase friction originating in Cart and Checkout by improving pricing, tax, payment, and transaction accuracy, while minimizing refunds, adjustments, and customer support escalations. Ensure high performance, scalability, and availability of transaction platforms during peak demand periods, safeguarding revenue and customer experience through seasonal, promotional, and high-traffic events. Partner closely with Product, Business, Finance, and Operations leaders to translate growth strategies into scalable transaction capabilities that accelerate business outcomes. Build and scale high-performing engineering organizations responsible for mission-critical transaction platforms, improving execution velocity, operational reliability, and long-term platform ownership. Improve Cart-to-Order conversion across Buy Now and Checkout flows, ensuring transaction performance scales effectively with customer growth, business expansion, and peak traffic events. Deliver industry-leading reliability, availability, and scalability for revenue-critical transaction platforms, maintaining customer trust and supporting uninterrupted business operations. Strengthen operational excellence by reducing incident frequency, accelerating recovery times, and improving overall platform stability and engineering effectiveness. Accelerate time-to-market for new transaction, payment, checkout, and tender capabilities through improved engineering velocity, platform reuse, and automation. Ensure continuous compliance with PCI, SOX, privacy, and regional regulatory requirements while maintaining robust security controls and audit readiness. Leverage AI, automation, and platform engineering practices to improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and delivery predictability. Build a strong engineering culture focused on accountability, talent development, innovation, career growth, and leadership succession. Foster strong cross-functional partnerships to deliver measurable business outcomes, balancing customer experience, financial performance, operational excellence, and long-term platform sustainability. What You Will Bring 15+ years of industry experience leading and scaling engineering organizations, with a demonstrated ability to establish clear ownership models, organizational structures, and leadership accountability. Strong business and strategic acumen, with a proven ability to navigate complex cross-functional environments and deliver measurable business impact. Deep technical leadership experience at scale, including architecture, platform modernization, distributed systems, and long-term technology strategy. Proven track record of driving Engineering and Operational Excellence through metrics-driven governance, execution rigor, and predictable delivery. Experience leveraging AI, automation, and engineering productivity tools to accelerate execution while maintaining quality and reliability. Demonstrated ability to balance delivery speed with engineering fundamentals, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. Strong commitment to engineering excellence across architecture, software development practices, quality engineering, testing, observability, and operational resilience. Proven ability to build an innovation-led culture that encourages ownership, experimentation, continuous improvement, and customer-centric thinking. Successful delivery of large-scale, complex programs requiring alignment across multiple engineering teams, business leaders, and stakeholders. Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across Product, Business, and Senior Leadership teams. About Walmart Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail. Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives. Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more. Belonging We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone. At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate. Equal Opportunity Employer Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the Minimum Qualifications... Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 3 years' supervisory experience. Preferred Qualifications... Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Primary Location... Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India About Walmart: Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and create a career you're proud of.