Job Description

The Group Director of Software Engineering will be a pivotal technology leader overseeing the delivery and people management for runtime teams at IDC and Traffic Management team globally. Key responsibilities for this role include: Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and run the next-generation runtime platform at IDC and traffic platform globally Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team. Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience. Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency. Enforce strong platform mindset to build products that support business innovation and growth keeping the operational excellence for business continuity Provide a technology direction and oversight for IDC teams working on Container and VM management, Secrets and Configuration platform, while the primary focus would be on Traffic Platform. Collaborate with your peers in runtime teams to build a cohesive and integrated offering across runtime technology stack. Understand the current traffic ecosystem, business requirements and propose a forward-looking vision and strategy Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap for Traffic systems, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives. Provide the technical depth in the traffic and network products and build platform for scale. Bring the synergy across different traffic products and visualize as one single platform with policies and rules applied across the hops. Ensure compliance with global networking and security standards, including DDoS protection and rate limiting. Lead edge computing and CDN strategy to optimize traffic distribution and reduce latency. Enable best of breed recommendations in traffic like queuing, rate limiting, edge computing, traffic prioritization, segmentation, circuit breakers to provide the best class customer experience with improved safety. Constantly look for optimization in terms of cost, efficiency and improve the availability, performance and resiliency posture. Convert the CxO level goals into roadmap and initiatives, drive the initiative through strategic decision. Define, design and deliver the objectives and key results with metrics driven success measure. This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart Global Technology Platform. What youll bring: Extensive experience in managing large-scale platforms, focusing on container and VM management, secrets and configurations platform, traffic, ingress, egress, and network flow. Over 10 years of experience in platform development, cloud solutions, and delivering large-scale web events and traffic. In-depth knowledge of running large scale Kubernetes and VMs, distributed networking, edge computing, and cloud-native traffic optimization. Practical experience with cloud networking (Azure, GCP, AWS), Kubernetes networking, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd). Proficient in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and application layer traffic. Familiar with traffic policies and best practices such as rate limiting, traffic shaping, and DDoS mitigation. Proven track record of enhancing operational excellence and achieving service restoration within 5 minutes through observability and automation-enabled service recovery. Competent communication and presentation skills for driving vision, motivating teams, and engaging executive leaders. Experience with contributing to or delivering open-source products in the traffic and network domain is advantageous. Strong collaboration and communication abilities, capable of building robust relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to influence across functional boundaries, build consensus, and align diverse teams toward shared objectives. Success in hiring, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent establishing high-performance and impactful teams. Holds a BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or a related technical field) with over 20 years of industry experience in engineering and technology leaders hip. A strong inclination towards innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.