SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly;
• developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

• Manage a high performing team of engineers & engineering leads who work across multiple technology stacks
• Design distributed systems considering scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, Minimum Viable Product- MVP & Non-Functional Requirements.
• Create simple, modular, extensible and functional design in adherence to the requirements for multiple products/solutions within a domain.
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
• Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics.
• Designing, guiding and vetting system designs to ensure scalable and robust architecture
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise andcontribute to the tech community.
• Work with the Product team to understand Customer requirements and analyze the gaps between existing architecture and customer requirements.
• Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc and be the catalyst towards the success of those events
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe
• Setting team priorities that support the borader organization s goals and prioritizing feature development aligned with team s strategic objectives
• Establishing clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, meeting regularly to discuss performance, provide feedback and coaching
• Developing the mid-term technical vision and roadmap, evolving it to meet future requirements and infrastructure needs. Leading a team of engineers and tech leads to transform the technical vision into reality

What you'll bring:

• Bachelors/masters degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 3+ years of experience in managing engineering teams.
• Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
• Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC
• Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Posseses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.
• Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka.
• Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.
• Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc will be an added advantage.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.