Group Director, Data Architecture – Engineering

Walmart

Group Director of Data Engineering at Walmart, shaping data analytics capabilities with a high-performing team. Overseeing development of cutting-edge data products across global markets.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $481,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CassandraHadoopHBaseMicroservicesOracleSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape the future of data and analytics capabilities at Walmart Global Tech.
Lead a diverse team of data engineers distributed globally.
Drive the Data engineering charter, solve key enterprise problems for multiple markets.
Coordinate across retail value chain functional teams on value realization initiatives.
Develop and leverage a consistent framework to identify and prioritize use cases.
Solve complex business and operational data problems.
Lead the team to assess customer needs and translate business problems into analytical problems.
Establish platform best practices and drive the use of state-of-the-art techniques.
Manage development and support of data commercialization platform for real-time and batch data processing.
Build and lead a high-performing team of data engineers.
Drive continuous improvement by researching industry best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor of Engineering degree or closely related discipline.
15+ years of experience in building data integration and platform solutions involving Big Data technologies.
Strong experience in driving data/engineering operations for end user applications.
Strong understanding of data platforms, data and reporting engines, data modelling and warehousing, and data transformations and pipelines for supporting real-time and batch-oriented events processing.
Experience in leading large/medium distributed platform teams.
Experience with relational databases (Oracle / My SQL), non-relational databases (Cassandra, HBase) and Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark.
Experience in building end-to-end data products (DaaS) using latest technologies and architecture (like microservices architecture).
Good knowledge of DevOps.
Experience with distributed real-time / micro-batch computation systems such as Spark.
Experience with leading data commercialization initiatives.

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.
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 integrationBig Data technologiesdata platformsdata modellingdata warehousingdata transformationsdata pipelinesrelational databasesnon-relational databasesmicroservices architecture

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationcontinuous improvementcustomer needs assessmentanalytical thinking

Certifications

Bachelor of Engineering