Group Director, Software Engineering – Dynamic Promise & Trip Management

Walmart

Group Director of Engineering leading Walmart’s Dynamic Promise and Trip Management platforms. Providing strategic and operational leadership for large-scale engineering organizations.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $254,000 - $481,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide strategic and operational leadership for large-scale engineering organizations responsible for Walmart’s Dynamic Promise and Trip Management platforms.
Define the long-term technology vision, drive organizational execution, and lead the development of highly scalable platforms that power delivery planning and execution across Walmart’s Last Mile ecosystem.
Lead multiple engineering organizations responsible for real-time planning, orchestration, routing, execution, and optimization platforms operating at enterprise scale.
Define and execute multi-year technology and platform strategies aligned to Walmart’s Last Mile Delivery business priorities and growth objectives.
Drive engineering excellence across architecture, platform reliability, observability, resiliency, operational maturity, security, and software quality.
Build and scale highly available distributed systems supporting delivery promise computation, trip planning, dispatching, routing optimization, and execution workflows.
Partner closely with Product, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketplace, Data Science, Finance, and executive leadership to improve delivery speed, operational efficiency, customer experience, and cost optimization.
Lead platform modernization and transformation initiatives focused on scalability, latency reduction, developer productivity, operational efficiency, and engineering velocity.
Drive AI-driven optimization, intelligent automation, and data-informed decision-making across logistics and execution platforms.
Establish strong operational rigor across production systems, including incident management, telemetry, distributed tracing, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
Influence enterprise-wide technology strategy and help shape the future of Walmart’s logistics and fulfillment capabilities.
Build, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders and high-performing organizations while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, inclusion, and customer obsession.
Lead organizational scaling, succession planning, talent development, and cross-functional alignment across engineering and business organizations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of software engineering experience with significant experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and senior engineering leaders.
Proven track record building and operating highly scalable distributed systems and real-time operational platforms at enterprise scale.
Strong technical expertise across cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, real-time processing, optimization platforms, and high-throughput systems.
Experience leading mission-critical platforms with strong operational excellence, resiliency, availability, and performance requirements.
Demonstrated success driving platform modernization, organizational transformation, and engineering operational maturity initiatives.
Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional and senior leadership teams.
Experience leading organizations through rapid growth, scaling challenges, and complex technology transformations.
Strong people leadership skills with experience managing managers, senior engineering leaders, and large engineering organizations.
Ability to operate effectively in highly complex, fast-paced, and ambiguous environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringcloud-native architecturesdistributed systemsAPIsreal-time processingoptimization platformshigh-throughput systemsplatform modernizationoperational excellenceperformance engineering

Soft Skills

strategic leadershipoperational leadershipexecutive communicationstakeholder managementpeople leadershipcross-functional alignmentmentoringorganizational transformationaccountabilityinnovation