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Position Summary... What you'll do...Position Summary
We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Director of Software Engineering to lead the transformation of Walmart’s Tax-Exempt technology ecosystem into a unified omni-channel platform serving both brick-and-mortar and eCommerce experiences across Walmart and Sam’s Club. This leader will drive the modernization, consolidation, and scalability of tax-exempt capabilities while ensuring compliance, operational excellence, and exceptional customer experiences.
This role is responsible for building and leading a high-performing U.S.-based engineering organization focused on delivering resilient, scalable, and compliant solutions that simplify tax exempt purchasing for customers across all channels. The Director will partner closely with Product, Architecture, Tax, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and business stakeholders to accelerate the technology roadmap while reducing compliance risk and enabling long-term platform growth.
The ideal candidate combines deep engineering leadership with strong architectural vision, operational rigor, stakeholder management, and the ability to translate evolving tax laws and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions. What You’ll DoLead Omni-Channel Tax Exempt Transformation

• Define and execute the engineering strategy for a unified Tax-Exempt platform spanning:
  • Walmart stores
  • Walmart eCommerce
  • Sam’s Club stores
  • Sam’s Club digital experiences
• Drive consolidation of fragmented systems and workflows into a scalable enterprise platform with shared services and consistent customer experiences.
• Enable seamless omni-channel tax exempt journeys including registration, validation, purchasing, renewals, audits, and customer support.

Drive Engineering Excellence

• Establish and scale engineering best practices across architecture, development, testing, security, observability, and operational reliability.
• Build a culture centered on engineering quality, accountability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Improve platform resiliency, scalability, performance, and maintainability while reducing operational and compliance risk.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and developer productivity tooling.

Architect for Scale and Compliance

• Lead architectural direction for enterprise-grade tax exempt systems handling high transaction volumes and complex compliance requirements.
• Ensure solutions are designed with strong governance, auditability, traceability, and data integrity controls.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to define standards, reusable patterns, APIs, and integration strategies across Walmart and Sam’s ecosystems.
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term sustainability and regulatory compliance.

Accelerate Business Roadmap Delivery

• Partner with Product and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into executable engineering roadmaps.
• Drive predictable delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives while managing technical debt and platform modernization.
• Create execution transparency through measurable outcomes, operational metrics, and delivery governance.
• Identify opportunities to simplify customer experiences and unlock new business capabilities through technology innovation.

Partner Across Business and Compliance Functions

• Build strong partnerships with Tax, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Product, Operations, and Store organizations.
• Develop a deep understanding of federal, state, and local tax-exempt regulations and ensure engineering solutions align with evolving legal requirements.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to executive stakeholders on compliance risk, platform strategy, and investment priorities.
• Lead cross-functional communication during audits, regulatory reviews, and major business initiatives.

Build and Develop a High-Caliber Engineering Organization

• Recruit, retain, and develop exceptional U.S.-based engineering talent with a strong focus on technical excellence and ownership.
• Create a culture of mentorship, inclusion, innovation, and high performance.
• Develop organizational capabilities in distributed systems, compliance engineering, platform engineering, and enterprise architecture.
• Establish clear career growth paths, succession planning, and leadership development across the organization.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. 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. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. 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 is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed.  We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.  
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey. 
Benefits:
Benefits: 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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.

Primary Location... 905 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.