(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Walmart
Denver, CO
$121,000–$242,000from the description
Aug 11, 2026
Denver, CO
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-management role at Walmart leading the Data Platform Operations team, responsible for operational strategy across the company's Data Lake and data platform ecosystem. The manager will drive DevOps and SRE practices, cloud cost optimization, security/governance, monitoring, and automation, while mentoring engineers and partnering with cross-functional teams. Suits an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in large-scale data platforms and cloud infrastructure.
Senior level · 7+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 10–30
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $207,812 (middle half $171,102–$235,487). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting offers two qualification paths: (1) a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus 5 years of software engineering experience, or (2) 7 years of software engineering experience with no degree — so no degree is strictly required. The overall years minimum is set to 7 (the lower bar of the degree-free path).
The data platform technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Delta Lake, Iceberg) are listed together under 'What you'll bring' with 'or similar' language, indicating familiarity with the category is required but no single tool is a hard gate. They are marked preferred individually; the broader capability is the real requirement.
Terraform and GCP are called out with firm language ('Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)' and 'Strong expertise in GCP-based data platform operations') in the requirements narrative and are treated as hard gates.
IAM and RBAC are explicitly called out as required knowledge areas; RBAC is a sub-concept of IAM and is not emitted as a separate skill.
Azure is listed explicitly as 'a plus' under preferred qualifications.
The 2 years of supervisory experience is a stated minimum qualification but is a role-level requirement rather than a named technology, so it is not emitted as a skill.
A Master's degree is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement remains None.
WCAG 2.2 AA / accessibility knowledge appears only under Preferred Qualifications and is a non-technical soft preference; it is not emitted as a skill.
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