Role: Technical Architect
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Software Development
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate, Other Post Graduate
Position Summary... As a Principal Engineer specializing in Identity and Access Management at Walmart, you will lead the design, development, and implementation of secure and scalable IAM solutions that protect the organization s digital assets and ensure seamless user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to set technical direction, ensure best engineering practices, and mentor engineers across the organization. Your expertise will guide the development of robust, secure, and high-performance systems, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. You will play a key role in shaping Walmart s technology strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and ensuring the successful execution of complex projects that impact millions of customers and associates. What youll do... As a Principal Engineer specializing in Identity and Access Management at Walmart, you will lead the design, development, and implementation of secure and scalable IAM solutions that protect the organization s digital assets and ensure seamless user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to set technical direction, ensure best engineering practices, and mentor engineers across the organization. Your expertise will guide the development of robust, secure, and high-performance systems, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. You will play a key role in shaping Walmart s technology strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and ensuring the successful execution of complex projects that impact millions of customers and associates. About the team Run Time Platforms (RTP), a division of Global Technology Platform (GTP), is dedicated to developing products and platforms that empower application teams to efficiently deploy and manage runtime environments. This position focuses on our proprietary Identity and Access Management (IAM) system a core, in-house solution. The IAM platform supports multiple businesses across various countries, handling billions of requests daily and serving as a critical component of our global operations. What You ll Do Design and implement new features while continuously improving quality of Identity and Access Management application Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide Designs reusable strategies, decisions, service components, libraries and frameworks to support enterprise-level IAM services. Develop software meeting code quality standards and metrics Guide and mentor others members in the team to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams Create and maintain technical documentation for the team to reference and share with our internal customers Ensures the maintenance, patching, operating, and monitoring of IAM systems. Troubleshoots and resolves system incidents, problems and changes, as required Engage and support application teams integrating with IAM, SSO, Active Directory and related modules Seeking and maintaining knowledge (cross/up skill) of current and upcoming identity security technologies. What You ll bring Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining microservices-based systems. Deep Understanding of IAM concepts : Authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, RBAC, ABAC, and federation protocols (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect) Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, and API documentation (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI). Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Familiarity with deploying and managing microservices on cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Understanding of messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS). Strong expertise in Java/J2EE/Spring technologies
Skills
in monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger). Implementing authentication, authorization, and secure communication between services. Experience working with NoSQL databases like Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB 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 experts 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 u