(USA) Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Financial Consolidations Engineering Team Position

The Financial Consolidations Engineering team builds and supports Walmart's global consolidation platforms that enable month-end close, external reporting, intercompany eliminations, and financial transparency across all markets. We partner closely with Controllership, Corporate Accounting, External Reporting, and SAP teams to modernize Walmart's consolidation ecosystem as part of our NextGen EPM and SAP HANA programs.

The team is focused on developing a streamlined, dependable company that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and Associate Digital Experience (ADE). We also provide a variety of services such as procurement, supplier portfolio management, merchandising master data, and analytics. From developing HR chatbots and virtual assistants to creating invoice solutions and facilitating legal changes, we help drive efficiency across Walmart globally.

Build & Scale Consolidation Platforms

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of FCCS/HFM-based global consolidation solutions.
• Own key technical components including metadata management, consolidation rules, ownership structures, FX translation, intercompany eliminations, and cash flow models.

Deliver Close & Reporting Capabilities

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close by enabling accurate and timely consolidated financials, cash flow, statutory and SEC reporting.
• Improve automation, refresh schedules, monitoring, and data validation processes.

Engineer Integrations & Data Flows

• Design and manage integrations between FCCS/HFM and SAP S/4HANA, data lakes (GCP/BigQuery), FDMEE, and other enterprise systems.
• Implement secure, governed, and scalable data pipelines for consolidation.

Drive Technical Modernization

• Contribute to Walmart's NextGen Consolidation (HFM → FCCS) roadmap.
• Modernize legacy assets, adopt cloud-native capabilities, and improve system observability.

Strengthen Governance & Controls

• Maintain SOX-compliant processes, produce audit-ready documentation, and enforce proper role-based access controls.
• Support environment management, patching, DR planning, and performance tuning.

Partner & Influence

• Work closely with Accounting, Controllership, FP&A, Internal Audit, and Technology to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide thought leadership in consolidation architecture, data lineage, and system design reviews.

What You'll Bring

Required

• 10+ years hands-on experience with Oracle FCCS and/or HFM.
• Strong expertise with the EPM Suite (FDMEE, EDMCS, NRCS, SmartView, EPM Automate, Financial/Management Reporting).
• Deep understanding of consolidation concepts:
• Intercompany eliminations
• Ownership & NCI
• CTA and multi-currency translation
• Equity adjustments
• YTD vs Periodic logic
• Cash flow automation
• Proficiency in scripting and automation: Groovy, Calc Manager, VBScript, Jython, PowerShell, REST APIs.
• Experience building metadata models, hierarchies, and data reconciliation processes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across data, metadata, rules, and integrations.
• Experience with FCCS security, AD/SAML integration, and access governance.
• Knowledge of SOX controls, audit expectations, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with cloud patching cycles, DR planning, environment refreshes, and performance tuning.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional partners.

Preferred

• 4+ years' experience migrating HFM applications to FCCS.
• Experience integrating with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BI/BW, ODI/OIC, or enterprise data lakes.
• Knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS, and multi-GAAP reporting.
• Experience managing global entity hierarchies, minority ownership structures, and complex multi-currency environments.
• Exposure to BigQuery, API-based integrations, and cloud-native data engineering patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD for EPM Cloud artifacts and version control (Git).
• Familiarity with sustainability/ESG reporting frameworks (nice-to-have).

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 experts, 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 is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.