Position Summary...Walmart Energy's mission is to deliver an affordable, reliable, and clean energy future for our company and the communities we serve. As one of the world's largest electricity consumers, Walmart faces rising electricity demand, increasing grid constraints, and long-term exposure to energy cost volatility.
We are looking for a Sr Manager, Data Engineering to sit on the business team within the Energy Digital Transformation organization. In this high-impact role, you will partner with another data engineer to co-own and lead the technical direction of the Energy Analytics data ecosystem. You will design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that enables advanced analytics, operational decision-making, and critical reporting for the Energy organization.
This role requires advanced engineering expertise, enterprise systems knowledge, and the ability to independently architect solutions that support critical business processes while maintaining strict security and governance frameworks.
What you'll do...What you'll do... - Build and Enhance Production-Grade Pipelines: Architect and implement scalable data ingestion, transformation, and processing frameworks to drive major department initiatives, including Real-Time Energy Insights, Bill Anomaly Detection, Tariff Optimization and much more.
- Drive Platform Reliability and Scalability: Maintain and optimize Google Cloud Platform and SQL Server environments to increase stability and reduce compute/storage costs. Implement CI/CD pipelines and establish operational playbooks to streamline testing and deployment.
- Ensure Data Compliance and Governance: Create and maintain comprehensive data dictionaries, lineage documentation, pipeline specifications, and SLA definitions. Update SSP documentation for Element and Google Cloud Platform environments to meet enterprise security and audit requirements.
- Implement Data Quality Frameworks: Design and enforce validation rules, schema evolution checks, and automated data profiling to ensure critical datasets remain reliable and well-governed.
- Own Operational Excellence: Monitor production pipelines, lead incident response, and conduct root-cause analysis. Build automation for repeatable processes to reduce manual overhead and improve system uptime.
- Lead Cloud & Platform Engineering: Build cloud-native and on-premise solutions using distributed compute engines (Google Cloud Platform, PySpark, custom Python frameworks) and manage orchestration tools like Airflow (via Walmart's Element platform) and SQL Server-based schedulers.
- Drive Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with business and analytics teams to translate complex business needs into scalable technical models. Evaluate new technologies, conduct POCs, and help shape the long-term architecture of Energy Analytics.
What you'll bring... - Deep experience designing, building, and operating scalable, production-grade data pipelines and data platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Strong hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, PySpark, relational databases, orchestration tools, and data processing frameworks.
- Experience working with Google Cloud Platform and enterprise data environments, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and storage design.
- Experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and deployment practices for data workloads.
- Strong understanding of data quality, observability, lineage, metadata, governance, and security controls in enterprise environments.
- Ability to translate complex business problems into scalable data engineering solutions and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong ownership mindset, including experience leading production support, root-cause analysis, and durable engineering improvements.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where the role bridges business priorities and technical execution.
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.
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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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
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 and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
4 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
1 year's supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud, Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field, 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...814 Respect 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.
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