Senior Architect

External Title : Senior Architect/ Senior Technical Architect – Java @ Walmart Labs Internal Title : Senior Architect (IN6) Senior Architect @ Walmart Labs, Bangalore. Our Company: We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week, more than 230+ million customers and members visit our 11000+ stores under 69 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $482 billion and 2.2 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the largest retail business in the world. @ Walmart Labs in Bangalore, we enable an ecosystem wherein our customers can “save money so they can live better” by using technology for the charter of building brand new platforms and services on latest technology stack to support both our e-commerce and stores businesses worldwide. Our Team The International Markets team contributes to key global ecommerce sites including ASDA (in the UK), Walmart Canada and Walmart Mexico. We work on technologies that intersect a wide variety of business models for grocery, general merchandise and the warehouse format. Our focus is to build a continuous, seamless, omni-channel customer experience across physical stores, ecommerce and mobile commerce, that is unique to Walmart and sets us apart from our competition. Your Opportunity As a part of the Mexico ecommerce initiative, you will have the opportunity to be part of a team that is being built from the ground up to work on 5 different brands including General Merchandise, Grocery, Samsclub, Suprema and Bodega. With over 2500 stores and a vibrant market that is growing at 26% CAGR, Mexico presents a challenging environment where ecommerce growth is fueled by an expected internet penetration increase of 30% and a 20% increase in smartphone adoption by 2020. It is also a uniquely strategic and time sensitive opportunity for Walmart to gain a substantial lead in Mexico over the rest of our competition. Your Responsibility: As Senior Architect for you would be responsible to: 1. Help define and influence the next generation shopping architecture 2. Work very closely with various business and technology stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple technology initiatives 3. Explore new technologies and run POCs that can add to the future technology roadmap for the team 4. Help hire, develop, upskill and mentor a strong team of engineers. 5. Take part in design, architecture and code reviews across different work streams Your Qualifications: • An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred. • 10+ years of relevant experience with the following skills o Proven experience in driving architecture, design and development of distributed systems focusing on high scalability, availability and extensibility o Experience in data crunching and deriving business insights using big data/machine learning techniques o Excellent knowledge with architecting distributed scalable systems using big data and NoSQL o Deep knowledge and hands on experience in delivering SOA, cloud and REST Services using Java/JEE, Spring, CXF etc… o Worked across the product development SDLC Our Ideal Candidate Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute at an individual level. He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.