Company overview
- Sector
- Retail, E-commerce & CPG
- Sub-sector
- Retail
- Mandate (derived)
- Customer Support & Ops
- Parent headquarters
- Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $713,200,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 98,528
- India headcount
- 5,000+
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Gurugram
GCC notes
Retail tech, supply-chain AI and e-commerce platform engineering; second GCC in Chennai opened 2025
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- ABB Robotics
- AC500 PLC
- ADP
- ADP Applicant Tracking System
- AI
- ANGEL LMS
- AT&T
- AVEVA InTouch HMI
- AVRO
- AWS Analytics
- AWS Directory Service
- AWS SDK for JavaScript
Public leadership
Prem Prashanth
Managing Director
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Software Engineers (E-commerce/Supply Chain); Data Engineers; ML Engineers; Product Managers; Site Reliability Engineers
Research overview
Walmart Inc. is a US-based multinational retail corporation (NYSE: WMT) headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. In India it operates through Flipkart Group, PhonePe, and Walmart Global Tech India - the latter serving as its retail-technology and engineering capability center across Bengaluru, Gurugram, and (as of 2025) Chennai.
- India launch
- 2009
- Maturity
- Mature / Strategic Engineering Hub
India operations trace back to ~2009 (16+ years), scaled to 5,000+ headcount across three cities including a newly leased ~4,500-seat Chennai campus, and extend into R&D-linked activity such as a Center of Excellence with IIT Madras - consistent with a mature, strategically embedded GCC.
Timeline
- 2009
WalmartLabs establishes a technology center in Bengaluru, the origin of what is now Walmart Global Tech India.
- 2020-08
WalmartLabs' Indian entity formally renamed Walmart Global Tech India as part of Walmart's global tech rebrand.
- 2025-04
Walmart Global Tech leases 465,447 sq ft across five floors at International Tech Park Chennai (Block 1) to open its second India GCC, sized for roughly 4,500 employees; 60-month lease beginning around January 2025.
Real estate
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Hiring signal
- Open roles
- 109
- As of
- 2026-08-20
- Software Engineer (Senior/Staff/Principal)
- Senior Software Engineer
- Staff Software Engineer
- Principal Software Engineer
- Senior Resolution Coordinator, Contact Center
News and developments
Walmart Global Tech leases 465,447 sq ft in Chennai for new second India GCC
~4,500-seat campus, 60-month lease, part of continued India expansion after Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune.
2025-04-17 GoodReturns (citing Economic Times) ↗
Walmart marks 20+ years in India, spotlighting Global Tech's AI-focused Center of Excellence with IIT Madras
Anniversary showcase of innovation, growth and partnerships including an AI CoE supporting MSMEs.
2025-06-24 Walmart Corporate Newsroom ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.