(USA) Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Role summary:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable SAP platform capabilities. This role requires overseeing the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions. Your expertise will support Walmart's long-term platform evolution while fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence across engineering initiatives.

About the team:

The Walmart Payroll Modernization Team is transforming how payroll technology is built, operated, and scaled for one of the world's largest workforces. The team owns the strategy, design, implementation, and continuous evolution of next-generation payroll platforms, ensuring that millions of associates are paid accurately and on time while meeting complex regulatory and business requirements. Working at the intersection of product, engineering, and payroll operations, the team drives modernization initiatives, builds new capabilities, simplifies legacy processes, enables large-scale business transformations, and establishes best-in-class engineering and operational practices.

What you''ll do:

• Be part of one of the world's largest Payroll Modernization programs, delivering payroll solutions that support more than 1.6 million associates every month across a highly complex enterprise ecosystem.
• Define and drive the strategic architecture of enterprise payroll solutions, ensuring scalability, compliance, security, and operational resilience across large-scale US payroll operations.
• Lead the design and implementation of core payroll capabilities including payroll processing, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, and year-end processing.
• Architect solutions that support complex US payroll requirements.

What you''ll bring:

• Deep technical expertise in ABAP, ABAP HR, ABAP OO, CDS Views, AMDP, OData Services, Enhancements, Forms, Interfaces, Workflow, and SAP Integration technologies.
• Proven experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance applications and integrations across SAP and non-SAP platforms.
• Experience in tools such as EPI-USE Variance Monitor, and other SOLMAN/ALM Tools.
• Experience integrating SAP solutions with enterprise platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Finance (FI), SuccessFactors, cloud services, and custom applications.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture patterns, security, performance optimization, and operational excellence.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam''s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor''s degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $95,000.00 - $165,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
• Stock