Senior Director, Data Engineering

Walmart

Senior Director of Engineering for Global Data Foundations at Walmart leading global data engineering teams. Driving data analytics capabilities to support Walmart's customer-centric initiatives.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $208,000 - $416,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowBigQueryCloudHadoopScalaSparkTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Driving the Data engineering charter with AI first mindset, bring best practices, solve key enterprise problems for multiple markets.
Develop and leverage a consistent framework with a platform based approach to identify and prioritize uses cases based on business value.
Exhibit thought leadership to solve complex data problems (business & operational), pivotal to Walmart's business and drive actionable insights.
Demonstrate incremental solution based approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems.
Lead and collaborate with the team to assess customer needs and translate the business problem into an analytical problem.
Establish platform best practices and drive the use of state of art techniques.
Drive continuous improvement by researching industry best practices and incorporating it to our company.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor of Engineering degree or closely related discipline.
15+ years of experience in building data pipeline design, architecture and deployment review.
A strong understanding of data platforms, data and reporting engines, data modeling and warehousing, and data transformations and pipelines for supporting real time and batch-oriented events processing.
Experience with Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark and cloud based solutions like Big Query.
Knowledge of tools like Airflow, Automic, Visualization tools like Power BI, Looker, tableau and languages like Spark, Scala.
Proactive business stakeholder management.
Translate business requirements into strategies and initiatives and drive the execution of deliverables.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data pipeline designdata architecturedata modelingdata warehousingdata transformationsreal time processingbatch-oriented processingBig data technologiesHadoopSpark

Soft Skills

thought leadershipproblem solvingcollaborationcustomer needs assessmentbusiness requirement translationproactive managementagile methodologyincremental solution approachflexibilitycontinuous improvement

Certifications

Bachelor of Engineering