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Associate Fellow I, Engineer

Walmart

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Compensation
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Location
Herndon, VAHybrid
Role Type
Fellowship
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Associate Fellow I supports architectural design and advisory across Walmart Global Tech’s enterprise business domains, with a focus on the Corporate Tech Strategy Finance Technology team. The role engages engineering teams to improve designs, reduce complexity, strengthen practices, and support systemic decoupling and shared standards. It also leads technical strategy, builds systems, and mentors an engineering community to improve production-system quality, stability, and availability.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Large-Scale Product DevelopmentOpen-Stack DeliveryMicroservicesTechnology Trend AwarenessDistributed SystemsHybrid CloudPackaged Software ReleasesPythonSparkSkalaData IntegrationData EngineeringTechnical VisionTechnical MentorshipAgile MethodologiesPerformance InstrumentationPerformance TuningPerformance OptimizationDesign PatternsCloud-Native ProductsHybrid Workplace DomainDigital AccessibilityWCAG 2.2 AAAssistive TechnologiesAccessibility Best Practices

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related10+ Years Experience or 18+ Years ExperienceGlobally Distributed Work Experience

Full job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Associate Fellow I is a highly technical, hands-on role within the Walmart Global Tech team, responsible for supporting architectural designs and advisory across multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role uniquely drives disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess and leading the overall tech strategy and architecture across a business area. The right candidate would be required to delve deep into specific applications and services, work on higher-level multi-domain system designs that transcend functional boundaries, and act as a central resource. Additionally, they will be responsible for building systems, driving holistic outcomes, and curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team.

In this role on the Corporate Tech Strategy (CTS), Finance Technology team, you will provide direct support and engagement to engineering teams, improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. This role contributes towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. You will work to elevate the entire engineering organization and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems.

Some key responsibilities include:

  • Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.

  • Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.

  • Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.

  • Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.

  • Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.

  • Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.

  • Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.

What you'll bring:

  • Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment.

  • Familiar with new technology trends.

  • A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.

  • Strong knowledge of the following:

  • Packaged software releases

  • Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Skala)

  • Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering)

  • Experience or proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.

  • Experience of working with globally distributed teams.

**Preferred experiences and exposures: **

  • Agile methodologies.

  • Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.

  • Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.

  • Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.

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.

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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.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 10 years’ experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment OR 18 years’ experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

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...

2245 Monroe St, Herndon, VA 20171, 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.

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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

How this job compares

Set against the 7,251 open Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$104–160K/yr171 salary ranges
  • Virginia median$35–45/hr33 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 299 open Engineering jobs in Virginia and 7,251 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 18 years of experience — more than three in four Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,982 postings).
Education
3,766 of the 7,251 open Engineering jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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