(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary: Walmart is a multi-national people-led tech-powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates. At People.AI, we help, support, and empower the Global People organization with AI and GenAI solutions to improve productivity, harness the opportunities for growth, focus on well-being and cultivate cultures of belonging to all Walmart's associates. Walmart's People.AI team is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead the ML Production Engineering team. At People.AI, we use our large and unique datasets about our employees to model, augment, automate, and reimagine all aspects of their digital experience. This is a vital role on the team with significant growth prospects, reporting directly to the Director of ML Engineering. You will be part of an Agile team dedicated to productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You’ll focus on the machine learning architectural design, develop and review model and application code, and ensure high availability and performance of our machine learning applications using existing and emerging cloud technologies. We are looking for someone who is eager to lead the development of large machine learning systems alongside talented modelers and engineers, as well as a strong architect with a track record for designing APIs used in large-scale production environments who can create simple, reusable abstractions for performing complex machine learning tasks. About Team: The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience. What you'll do: Recruit, lead, and mentor a strong team. Shape the People.AI product roadmap using an understanding of both business requirements and machine learning architecture. Dive deeply with members of your team to provide coaching that ensures their success, providing hands-on technical guidance and direction in critical high-impact areas as needed. Partner and collaborate closely with People.AI product and business leaders. Work cross-functionally with product, data science, app development, and data engineering teams to prioritize efforts that will bring your team’s work to life. Identify new opportunities, develop prototypes, achieve buy-in from partners, and communicate staffing needs. Effectively communicate your team’s work to other senior leaders and the executive team on a regular basis. Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale. Model the MLOps ways-of-working by leveraging CI/CD best practices, including test automation, automated deployments, model retraining, and monitoring to ensure successful deployment and continuous operation of ML systems and pipelines. Stay up-to-date with the latest state-of-the-art techniques in use and deployment of machine learning applications/models and foster a culture of learning within the organization. What you'll bring: Experience leading teams both technically and in a formal management capacity. Excellent communication skills and the ability to understand and synthesize requirements across multiple domains. Deep knowledge of and experience in building scalable distributed end-to-end machine learning pipelines and or services. Highly skilled in the technologies we use and learn daily: API Design, scaling applications, distributed systems, Python (ML, APIs, workflows), Cloud Platform (Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, Airflow, SQL. Well-developed software engineering/API design fundamentals and the ability to write production code when needed. Intellectual curiosity and a passion for MLOps and cloud technologies. 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. 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 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 diversity - unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. Minimum Qualifications: Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 2 years’ supervisory experience. Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 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. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture. Primary Location: 508 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America #J-18808-Ljbffr