GROUP DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

About the role

Position Summary... Passionate about solving complex problems, building scalable Transportation platforms and developing engineering teams? Join Walmart Global Tech as Group Director, Software Engineering – Transportation to transform how freight moves across our network.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Our Transportation team is modernizing first- and middle-mile freight movement through Stride, a unified Transportation Management System connecting inbound and outbound operations across Walmart U.S., Sam’s Club and International. We build platforms and optimization capabilities that reduce cost, improve service and unlock new growth through AI and automation.

What you'll do:

As Group Director of Software Engineering – Transportation, you will lead engineering leaders and teams spanning Stride, Optimization, Simulation, Finance, B2B Enablement and AI Strategy. You will:

- Set the long-term platform and engineering strategy for first- and middle-mile Transportation across segments and geographies.

- Own architectural governance and key technology decisions; modernize systems while improving platform scale and reliability.

- Shape roadmaps with business and product leaders, managing enterprise trade-offs and end-to-end Transportation solutions.

- Advance intelligent planning, routing, load optimization and asset utilization to improve cost, speed and service.

- Define and deliver Transportation’s AI strategy, embedding automation, AI/ML and agentic capabilities with measurable impact.

- Enable B2B, RDC-to-Customer, Ship with Walmart and Marketplace growth through reusable Transportation capabilities.

- Develop engineering leaders, architects and teams; strengthen succession, talent and a product-oriented engineering culture.

- Drive engineering and operational excellence through reliability, performance, delivery speed, technical-debt reduction and automation.

- Influence senior Supply Chain, Operations, Product and Engineering stakeholders, navigating ambiguity and building alignment.

What you'll bring:

Experience with enterprise platforms, distributed systems, architecture, data, optimization, and AI.

• Senior engineering leadership experience managing directors and senior managers in complex, large-scale technology organizations.

• Deep understanding of transportation management, logistics, supply chain systems or network optimization.

• Experience defining enterprise platform strategies and modernizing distributed systems, cloud-native services and integrations.

• Strong technical judgment in architecture, scalability, reliability, DevOps, system rationalization, microservices and CI/CD.

• Experience delivering business value through optimization, AI/ML, automation and responsibly deployed agentic systems.

• Ability to influence executives, navigate competing priorities, and balance business outcomes with sound engineering decisions.