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Responsibilities
- Define and drive the North Star architecture and multi-year technology strategy for Transactions, Cart, Checkout, Payments, Tender orchestration, and related capabilities.
- Provide end-to-end architectural leadership across cart, checkout, payment, order placement, fulfillment, pricing, promotions, inventory, and order-management ecosystems.
- Modernize complex transaction platforms to improve scalability, resilience, performance, extensibility, engineering velocity, and business innovation.
- Establish domain boundaries, architectural patterns, platform contracts, APIs, integration strategies, reusable capabilities, and migration architectures.
- Architect highly available and fault-tolerant systems that preserve transaction continuity during failures, traffic spikes, dependency degradation, and peak shopping events.
- Drive performance and latency optimization across critical customer transaction journeys.
- Establish architecture principles and technical standards for distributed systems, events, data contracts, caching, observability, fault isolation, security, scalability, and resilience.
- Identify systemic constraints, technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, operational risks, and dependency failures, and lead strategies to address them.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Business, Customer Experience, Payments, Fulfillment, Platform, and enterprise leaders on strategic technology investments.
- Use customer, business, architecture, and engineering metrics to measure architecture effectiveness and prioritize technical investments.
- Leverage AI, automation, code intelligence, and modern engineering practices to improve developer productivity, modernization, quality, and delivery speed.
- Lead architecture reviews and technology assessments for significant platform investments.
- Mentor Principal Engineers, architects, and senior technical leaders while raising engineering and architectural standards across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 6 years of software engineering or related experience, or 8 years of software engineering or related experience.
- 13+ years of progressive software engineering and architecture experience, including significant technical leadership across large-scale, business-critical platforms.
- Deep experience architecting and operating highly scalable distributed systems supporting high-volume digital customer experiences and transaction workloads.
- Experience defining enterprise-scale architecture strategies, North Star architectures, and multi-year platform modernization roadmaps.
- Expertise in distributed architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, caching, distributed data systems, messaging, observability, and highly available application architectures.
- Strong understanding of distributed transaction patterns, consistency, idempotency, failure recovery, fault isolation, resilience, and high availability.
- Experience architecting high-performance customer-facing platforms where latency, availability, scalability, reliability, and customer experience are critical.
- Understanding of commerce and transaction journeys including cart, checkout, payments, tendering, pricing, promotions, inventory, fulfillment, ordering, and the broader purchase lifecycle.
- Track record of simplifying complex technology ecosystems, solving systemic challenges across teams and platforms, and establishing standards that enable independent innovation.
- Experience driving operational excellence through resilience, observability, performance optimization, capacity planning, fault isolation, disaster recovery, and engineering quality.
- Experience using AI, automation, developer platforms, and modern software engineering practices to improve productivity and delivery.
- Ability to connect architecture investments to measurable customer and business outcomes such as conversion, revenue, customer experience, reliability, and engineering efficiency.
- Proven ability to influence senior Engineering, Product, Business, and Platform leaders and mentor Principal Engineers, architects, and other senior technical talent.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills for explaining complex technical problems to technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 4 years of related experience and knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.
Benefits
- Benefits include incentive awards, a 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and other perks.
- The role is based at 1395 Crossman Ave in Sunnyvale, California, and Walmart emphasizes working together in person through its campuses.
- Walmart’s primary hubs include Bentonville, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New York/New Jersey.
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About Walmart
Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer that sells groceries, general merchandise, and services through Walmart and Sam's Club stores and online marketplaces for consumers and small businesses. Its model spans physical retail, e-commerce, advertising, and a vast supply chain, plus pharmacy, health, and financial services. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Inc. is a public company on the NYSE (WMT) operating in the U.S. and multiple international markets.