Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About 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. The team is passionate about solving complex challenges at enterprise scale and creating payroll experiences that are reliable, compliant, and future-ready.

Walmart’s Corporate Tech and Services is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.  

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is CTS. Joining CTS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

What you will 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.
• Design, build, and enhance payroll capabilities across SAP Payroll, supporting accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing at enterprise scale.
• Lead the design and implementation of payroll features including payroll calculations, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, payroll corrections, and year-end activities.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, HR, Finance, Tax, and Compliance teams to translate business requirements into scalable and supportable payroll solutions.
• Configure and optimize payroll schemas, PCRs, wage types, payroll functions, and payroll processing frameworks while ensuring maintainability and adherence to established standards.
• Support complex payroll requirements, including multi-state taxation, federal, state, and local tax regulations, supplemental payments, wage attachments, and evolving legislative requirements.
• Drive payroll solution quality through detailed design reviews, impact assessments, payroll testing strategies, and production readiness activities.
• Investigate and resolve complex payroll issues by performing root cause analysis, payroll result validation, schema and PCR debugging, payroll cluster analysis, and reconciliation activities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless integrations between payroll, time management, HR systems, finance applications, tax providers, banking partners, and third-party vendors.
• Contribute to payroll modernization efforts by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, reduce technical debt, improve automation, and enhance payroll operational efficiency.
• Support payroll year-end activities, tax updates, compliance changes, audit inquiries, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Champion operational excellence by improving payroll reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and supportability while maintaining a strong focus on associate experience and business outcomes.

What you will bring

• 10+ years of experience implementing, enhancing, and supporting large-scale SAP Payroll solutions, with deep expertise in U.S. Payroll processing and statutory compliance.
• Strong expertise across key U.S. payroll localization domains, including BSI TaxFactory, U.S. Taxation, Retroactive Accounting, Garnishments, Benefits Processing, Off-Cycle Payroll, and Year-End Processing (W-2, Quarter-End, and Tax Updates).
• Hands-on experience with SAP HCM Payroll and/or SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP), including schema design, PCR development, wage type configuration, payroll troubleshooting, and payroll operations support.
• Strong understanding of U.S. payroll tax regulations, including multi-state taxation, reciprocity agreements, resident/non-resident taxation, supplemental wage processing, and wage attachments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering integrated payroll solutions involving platforms such as SuccessFactors, Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Finance (FI/CO), banking systems, tax providers, benefits vendors, and custom enterprise applications.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled capabilities and automation to accelerate payroll build, testing, validation, payroll comparison, release management, and upgrade activities.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with experience debugging payroll calculations, payroll schemas, PCRs, payroll clusters, interfaces, and reconciliation issues.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and supportable payroll solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading critical payroll initiatives through design, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across Payroll, HR, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams.
• Experience supporting payroll populations exceeding 50,000 employees in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with payroll modernization, cloud transformation, SAP payroll migrations, or large-scale payroll platform implementations.
• Experience working in agile product organizations and supporting highly available, business-critical payroll services.
• Experience in tools such as EPI-USE Variance Monitor and payroll reconciliation processes to validate payroll changes, identify calculation variances, and ensure payroll accuracy during deployments, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.

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.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India