(USA) Senior Director, Software Engineering

## Position Summary... ## What you'll do... **About the Role** We are seeking a Senior Director to lead a critical organization responsible for aligning workforce capacity, associate time, and operational execution to real customer demand at enterprise scale. This role combines platform ownership and changes leadership with greenfield innovation. The successful leader will drive workforce planning and execution systems while building new capabilities that connect associate behavior to measurable store and customer outcomes. This is a highly visible role requiring executive presence, strong systems thinking, and comfort operating in ambiguity. **What you’ll do:** - Lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization across the U.S. and India. - Provide a data driven approach for optimizing associate time and oncomes by suggesting next best actions. - Own workforce planning and demand-alignment platforms, including scheduling, staffing, and labor forecasting capabilities. - Drive complex change initiatives across product, business, and engineering stakeholders, influencing senior leaders. - Scale capabilities across U.S. and international markets while moving toward globally unified solutions. - Drive innovation in undefined problem spaces, building new technology where requirements evolve over time. - Ensure engineering work is tightly linked to business and store-level outcomes through strong metrics and data analysis. - Foster a culture of quantitative, outcome-driven decision‑making. **What You’ll bring** - Data driven mindset that maps real-world operating behaviors to data modeling, metrics, and machine learning. - Strong understanding of how your engineering work links to business outcomes. - Senior leader with experience leading large technical or engineering organizations (Director or Senior Director level). - Strong change management and executive influence skills. - Proven ability to deliver results in ambiguous, loosely defined environments. - Engineering or technical background with strong systems thinking. - Highly metrics- and data-driven, with clear ties between technology investments and business outcomes. - Comfortable iterating toward solutions rather than relying on fully defined specifications. - Experience in workforce management, retail, logistics, real-time task management or large-scale operational environments is a plus, but not required. **Why This Role** - Enterprise-scale impact with clear customer and operational outcomes - Combination of execution excellence and innovation leadership - High visibility and influence across engineering, product, and business leadership **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. Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates. Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and aroun…