(USA) Distinguished, Architect

Position Summary

As a Distinguished Architect - Omni Customer Experience Engineering (across Commerce Platforms teams: Discovery, Transactions and OmniServices), you will lead the strategy, architecture, and design of Omni-channel commerce solutions powering customer experiences across in-store, online, mobile, and emerging channels. You will focus on scalability, resilience, and performance, ensuring our microservices, cloud-native, and API-first approach meets the evolving needs of a global retail business. This role requires a visionary technology leader with deep experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, AI/ML-driven personalization, and event-driven architectures. You will partner with engineering, product, and business teams to drive innovation, establish best practices, and influence the technology roadmap at the enterprise level.

About the Team

The Omni Customer Experience Engineering team designs and delivers seamless commerce solutions across digital and physical retail touchpoints. Discovery enables intelligent search and personalized recommendations; Transactions supports secure, efficient checkout experiences; Omni Services provides foundational APIs and integrations to unify customer and associate experiences. Our mission is to drive Innovation, reliability, and satisfaction at every touchpoint.

Immigration sponsorship support will not be available for this position

What you’ll do

• Architect and design best-in-class Omni-channel microservices to support a frictionless shopping experience across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Define and implement high-scale, low-latency, highly available cloud-native solutions in AWS/GCP/Azure with multi-region, event-driven architecture.
• Lead the adoption of domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and CQRS for high-performance transactional services.
• Develop and enforce API-first, headless commerce, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven integrations.
• Drive the AI/ML and personalization strategy to optimize user experiences across multiple channels.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, and business executives to align technical vision with business goals.
• Influence and drive the technology modernization strategy, including serverless, Kubernetes, and edge computing in retail experiences.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards while optimizing performance and reliability.
• Mentor and develop principal engineers, senior architects, and teams on scalable and resilient system design; engage in industry forums and technology conferences to advance the company’s innovation agenda.

What you’ll bring

• At least 8 years of experience in software architecture and engineering leadership, with a focus on commerce, retail tech, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Expert in microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed computing; knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures.
• Strong experience in API gateway design, GraphQL, RESTful services, gRPC, and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with high-scale transactional systems, event sourcing, and real-time data streaming.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust).
• Experience in DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, observability, and performance optimization.
• Ability to influence senior executives, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Passion for mentoring and growing engineering talent.

The above information is intended to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine one line of code that can impact hundreds of millions of people. Walmart Global Tech is a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who innovate at scale.

Living the Walmart Value

Focus on Associates and Belonging; building a high-performing team and embracing a culture of belonging.

Benefits and Perks

Competitive pay with incentive awards, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid parental leave, PTO, health plans, flexible hours, and more. We support a mix of virtual and in-person work as appropriate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer by Choice. We value diverse styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions and are committed to inclusivity for all people.

Additional compensation may include annual or quarterly bonuses and stock, where applicable per role and plan terms.

Primary Location

1395 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA , United States of America

Note

Location information and salary ranges are provided for guidance and may be adjusted during the hiring process. Some sections of this posting reflect general Walmart benefits information which is subject to change.