(USA) Senior Distinguished Technical Architect - C...
Walmart

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The Sr. Distinguished Data Architect role is a hands-on leadership role that supports Data architecture and Platform advisory within Sam's Club Technology - Data Solutions Strategy & Delivery team. This is a newly created and highly technical role positioned uniquely to enable disruptive growth and data-driven decision making across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess.

This role has an executive level visibility with a huge impact to the business as the core data platform and governance will power the growth of the target market to multi-billion dollars. The right candidate is a Data evangelist and would be required to go deep into specific data management areas such as Governance, Platform and Streaming architecture and work on higher-level multi-domain data architecture designs, transcending functional boundaries. They would also be responsible for mentoring and training a vibrant architecture and engineering micro-community within Sam's Tech.

About the Sam's Club Technology - Data Solutions Strategy & Delivery

The Data Solutions Strategy & Delivery team is part of Sam's Tech Data, Tech Strategy and Emerging Tech organization that builds innovative and scalable data solutions for the broader organization. These teams work closely with Sam's Club Data and Analytics business, product, and technology teams to enable a variety of current and future Operational and Analytics initiatives across Membership, Marketing, eCommerce, Supply-chain, Finance, and In-Club initiatives.

What will you Do?

The Sr. Distinguished Architect role is a hands-on role that supports data architectural designs and advisory for all Sam's Club domain areas. The role will lead overall data architecture and provide direct support and engagement to platform and engineering teams, will improve designs to reduce data duplicity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. Work to elevate the entire data platform and engineering org and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability and observability of our production systems.

• Develop trusted partnerships with Business, Product and Technology leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
• Bring a strong industry perspective that can help shape and evolve the internal developer experience to be as good or better than other leading technology organizations.
• Lead and inspire high-performing data platform and engineering teams in omni-channel retail to build and scale self-provisioned, highly reliable, secure, and performant data platform / products.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, and business stakeholders.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on creating automated data pipelines, smart orchestrators, data access layer patterns for data producers and consumers to enable highly optimized compute and storage designs to support a variety of streaming and batch workloads.
• Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers within Sam's Tech Data and Analytics teams, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex initiatives and issues.
• High sense of urgency to solve problems and in executing them with extreme ownership.
• Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment.

What you will bring

• 15+ years of architecture and engineering experience with a focus on large scale data product development in an open stack environment.
• Should have a keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business, and a proven ability to be a game changer.
• A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
• Cloud experience preferably with Azure or GCP.
• Digital transformation experience.
• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on as required.
• Ability to set and drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Should have established credibility as a central resource, utilized by teams to seek advisory on complex technical issues and projects.
• Depth focus and an attitude to understand and resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience with hiring and building teams from ground up. Experience of working with globally distributed teams. Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate.

Preferred experiences and exposures:

• Led and implemented a large-scale ODS, Datalakes or Data warehouses initiatives in cloud.
• Hands-on experience in designing streaming data initiatives.
• Have good experience in data-pipeline instrumentation, and cost-optimization of large-scale data products across hybrid/multi-clouds.
• Knowledge of Data governance practice and required tools to enforce security and access controls on governed datasets.
• Experience in the retail domain will be a huge positive.

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 expert's 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:
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.

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At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

The annual salary range for this position is $161,000.00-$276,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 7 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business
intelligence, business analytics or related field. Option 2: 9 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business intelligence,
business analytics or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 5 years' experience in data engineering, solution
architecture, business intelligence, business analytics or related field.
3 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area

Primary Location...
3209 PINEVILLE MATTHEWS RD, CHARLOTTE, NC 28226-9301, United States of America

About Sam's Club

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners.

Sam's Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.

Sam's Club 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.

All the benefits you need for you and your family

• Multiple health plan options, including vision & dental plans for you & dependents
• Free Membership and discounts in fresh produce
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase plans, life insurance and more
• Paid education assistance with college degrees through our Live Better U program
• Parental Leave
• Pay during military service
• Paid time off - to include vacation, sick leave and parental leave
• Short-term and long-term disability for when you can't work because of injury, illness, or childbirth

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com/Benefits.

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