Global Catalog sits at the heart of Walmart's commerce ecosystem, powering product experiences across online and in-store journeys for millions of customers worldwide. It enables suppliers and sellers to efficiently create and manage product experiences while helping customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products with confidence. By powering high-quality product information, rich content, and intelligent commerce experiences, Catalog plays a critical role in connecting customers, suppliers, and sellers across one of the world's largest retail platforms. As Walmart continues to transform retail through people, technology, and AI, Global Catalog is helping shape the future of commerce through innovative capabilities that serve customers, suppliers, sellers, and associates around the world.

The Senior Director of Engineering will be based in the Bengaluru office and will lead a core area within Global Catalog. Working with peer engineering leaders and partners across Product, Business, and Data Science, this leader will be responsible for modernizing product content processing and advancing scalable catalog capabilities that support Walmart's global commerce experiences.

Own the engineering strategy and execution for core product content processing systems, which serve as a source of truth for product content used across Walmart's digital product experiences, including product detail pages.

Lead the evolution of scalable pipelines that process product content from suppliers, sellers, and external brand sources, including images and videos, within defined service-level expectations, while advancing reusable capabilities for matching, ranking, merging, variants, and relationship processing to improve the accuracy, consistency, and quality of product content at scale.

Partner with Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations leaders to clarify priorities, make informed trade-offs, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers, sellers, suppliers, merchants, and associates.

Lead the design and operation of scalable, reliable, secure, and resilient distributed systems across the assigned Global Catalog portfolio.

Develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent, fostering clear ownership, sound engineering practices, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.

Improve platform effectiveness, catalog quality, engineering productivity,



and cost efficiency through data, automation, and appropriate use of AI.

18+ years of technology and engineering leadership experience, leading engineering managers, senior engineers, and architects. Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Experience leading platform, commerce, marketplace, or enterprise product engineering teams and delivering meaningful business and customer outcomes at scale.

Provides architectural guidance and solution review across multiple backend (for example, Java, Python, Go, Rust), technologies.

Drive standardization and reuse of architectural patterns, frameworks, and AI tooling across domains to accelerate time-to-market, reduce technical debt, and ensure architectural integrity.

Strong technical and architectural judgment across contemporary software platforms, cloud technologies, data-intensive systems, AI/ML-enabled capabilities, and platform engineering practices.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience building alignment across Engineering, Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations through collaboration and influence.

Proven ability to build and develop high-performing engineering teams, strengthen leadership capability, and foster a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.

BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, with experience in eCommerce, marketplace, commerce platforms, or large-scale product organisations preferred.

This is an opportunity to lead a core Global Catalog engineering portfolio and help strengthen the product content capabilities that support Walmart's customers, sellers, suppliers, and associates worldwide.

About Walmart Global Tech

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. 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 sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Walmart, Inc., We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 9 years' experience in software engineering or related area. 4 years' supervisory experience.

Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

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