Distinguished, Software Engineer

Distinguished Architect

We are seeking a visionary Distinguished Architect to lead the technical strategy across a complex and high-impact domain that includes Enterprise Inventory, Order Management Systems, Event-Driven Fulfillment, Outbound (O3) and Inbound (IO2) Order Optimization, GeoDemand, Placements, and Smart Forecasting. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker and hands-on technologist, capable of making the complex simple, and inspiring teams to build resilient, future-ready solutions.

About Team: Focusing on customer, associate, and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa to name a few.

What You'll Do

• Delivering on ambitious business demands while ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Guiding the migration from legacy systems to next-gen platforms, aligning with Global Tech standards.
• Providing deep technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers and architects, and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Understanding the end-to-end business and data flows, enabling informed decision-making and simplification of complex systems.
• Partnering across peer domains to shape and execute a cohesive technical strategy that drives innovation and operational efficiency.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive experience architecting scalable and mission critical solutions.
• Experience influencing and aligning with senior engineering and business leaders spanning domain boundaries.
• Ability to navigate complex technical landscape while maintaining clarity and decisiveness.
• Strong hands-on expertise in: Java required; Mainframe experience a plus. Kafka, message queues, event-driven architecture Cloud platforms: Azure or GCP Cosmos DB (or similar) and Cassandra CI/CD, observability, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) Data engineering background, including ETL Spark, and workflow tools such as Airflow
• Deep understanding of system design, API governance, and security.
• Ability to influence technical vision, platform standards, and engineering best practices.

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 retailers 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 on a scale that impacts millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work: We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove the location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

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 belonging - unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

Primary Location: 701 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.