(USA) Director, Software Engineering

Position Summary

What you'll do...

In this role, you will be at the forefront of designing, developing, and guiding scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions across our technology ecosystem, ensuring alignment with industry trends, while maintaining a focus on innovation, usability, and business alignment.

As a Director of Software Engineering , you own building scalable data infrastructure, creating durable data assets and data products, ensuring data quality and governance, and facilitating data-driven decision-making to support the strategic vision of Sam's Club's people organization. You will lead a diverse, global organization. You will collaborate and partner with multiple data science and platform engineering teams, as well as product and business teams across the organization.

About Team: Sam's AI Labs

What you'll do:

• Lead the design and architecture for multiple products, ensuring cross-system integration, reusability, and alignment with technical priorities.
• Guide the team on coding best practices, frameworks, and tools to ensure scalability, automation, and security across applications.
• Drive application maintenance, re-engineering, and documentation, ensuring smooth operational performance and quick troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture requirements and manage the scoping, prioritization, and delivery of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
• Define and implement effective testing strategies, environments, and tools to ensure application functionality, usability, and quality.

What you'll bring:

• Strong Technical and Architectural Acumen - Proven experience in system architecture, cross-system integration, and defining technology stacks.
• Strategic Problem-Solving Skills - Ability to conduct RCA/RCCA, troubleshoot complex issues, and recommend scalable and secure solutions.
• Effective Communication and Collaboration - Excellent in gathering requirements, mediating conflicting needs, and aligning teams and stakeholders on shared goals.
• Deep Understanding of Coding Best Practices - Expertise in coding patterns, frameworks, automation tools, and scalability/security principles.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Passion for driving innovation, proposing alternative frameworks/tools, and improving application usability and performance.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 8 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• 3 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 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.
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America