(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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.

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 including multi-state taxation, reciprocity agreements, resident and non-resident tax scenarios, supplemental wage processing, wage attachments, and evolving federal, state, and local compliance mandates.

Drive a platform-first mindset, building scalable, reusable, and future-ready payroll capabilities rather than point solutions.

Design and deliver new payroll features, enhancements, and capabilities that enable future business growth, regulatory compliance, workforce flexibility, and changing legislative requirements.

Own payroll solution design across SAP HCM Payroll, Payroll Control Center (PCC), and related HR, Finance, Tax, and Time Management ecosystems.

Partner with Tax, HR, Finance, Legal, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure payroll solutions meet regulatory requirements, audit standards, data governance policies, and enterprise control objectives.

Champion payroll operational excellence by improving payroll accuracy, reducing defects, automating controls, strengthening auditability, and improving payroll processing efficiency at scale.

Establish architecture standards and governance for payroll schemas, wage type frameworks, payroll calculations, integration patterns, and extension strategies while minimizing technical debt and customization complexity.

Solve complex business and technical challenges at massive scale, balancing payroll accuracy, compliance requirements, system performance, user experience, and operational efficiency.

Provide technical leadership during payroll incidents, legislative updates, tax changes, year-end activities, mergers and acquisitions, payroll migrations, and large-scale transformation initiatives.

Drive continuous modernization of payroll technology through automation, observability, AI-assisted operations, self-service capabilities, and adoption of industry best practices.

Mentor other engineers, architects, and payroll specialists while influencing the future direction of payroll technology through strategic solution design and executive-level stakeholde…