As a engineering manager for Wal-Mart Global eCommerce division, you’ll have the opportunity to help define and implement components for Wal-Mart’s next-generation, global e-Commerce Platform. This hands-on position, reporting to the Director at Walmart, is responsible for design and implementation of application systems and components which are massively scalable, high performing and multi-tenant, working together with the Architects, Engineering Managers, Business and Product management teams.
The position will be responsible for understanding program needs and delivering customer personalization and product recommendations systems with its underlying analytical platform, for online shopping. Some of the key areas he/she will work in and contribute will span data analysis, development of personalized recommendations, rules engine and its application service interfaces. A wide degree of creativity, efficiency and analytical insight is a plus.
1. Personalization and Recommendations 50%
• Serve as a lead for architecture, design and development decisions of personalized product recommendation systems, data analytics and its corresponding application interfaces for Walmart eCommerce.
• Drive continuous improvement in areas of responsibility, and bring in innovative ideas.
• Assess commercial and open-source software components, and integrate in product stack as applicable.
• Help develop multi-channel customer recommendations and personalization framework to integrate with various channels e.g web, email, mobile, stores.
2. Data Mining and Analysis 20%
• Evaluate new technologies in data mining efforts, working with business and product management on their analytical needs.
• Contribute to the broader team with analytical insights, vision and approaches to problem solving.
3. People management, Business partnership 30%
• Lead and hire engineers.
• Bring in best practices in management.
• Partner with Business groups, Product/Project Mgmt, and various teams for understanding business needs, requirements, conducting feasibility analysis to providing a solution deliverable.
Minimum Educational Level:
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
Experience
• 10+ years in software engineering
• 6+ years of experience in the areas of Online Marketing, Data Mining, Analysis, CRM and related areas.
• 5+ years in design and development of application systems.
• Experience managing vendors / system integrators
This position description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant.
Functional Competencies:
• Required:
• Excellent analytical, design and architecture skills
• Good understanding and grasp of customer behavior analysis, product recommendations, and online marketing aspects in the eCommerce space.
• Have developed or worked with high volume data, analytical systems.
• Experience with database systems(e.g Oracle, MySql, Postgres), programming languages(e.g Java, C) , scripting languages (Perl, Python, etc) and various web related technologies – J2EE, Javascript, HTML etc.
• Experience implementing service-oriented (SOA) architectures.
• Expertise in evaluating and integrating commercial or open source products.
• Understanding of data modeling, analysis and mining.
• Ability to work with in a large setting, with various cross-functional groups including business users, product managers, QA, Release, and UI and core Platform teams.
• Ability to work in an fast-paced environment, and respond to business needs promptly.
• Preferred:
• Experience with building personalized recommendation systems in eCommerce space.
• Knowledge of statistical data mining, machine learning and related packages (e.g Weka, Mahout).
• Knowledge of working with distributed platforms (e.g Hadoop, Cassandra, Bigtable )
• Ability to work with outsourced technology partners based in multiple, global locations
• Experience working in a multi-country Global eCommerce or technology implementation
Strong Interpersonal skills and proven successful leadership
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