Senior Technical Program Manager

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.

Our Team

This business closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores and merchants with technology innovation. rom grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate — whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization.

Your Opportunity

Drive the US Technology and associated business by leading programs that build highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions. Engage with thought leaders from around the company, customers and internal preview users, to define and build the right experiences. Help and participate with the teams and drive programs to success. Make impact on a global scale

As a Technical Program Manager On The Team

• You’re a data-driven, strategic problem-solver at heart
• You have a knack to build consensus and alignment across different models, varying priorities and multi-disciplinary, yet integrated teams.
• Have the ability to step in to lead critical projects across geographies based on emergent business needs as well facilitate early discussions to scope new projects.
• You constantly seek to as establish and lead operating processes and tools for effectively managing the portfolio.
• You lead technical discussion with conviction, be a subject matter expert and have strategic influence. Experience and deep understanding of software development methodologies and principles (including SDLC, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Principles, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe))
• You should effectively plan and lead the engineering team delivery and report on team's delivery with metrics (code coverage, velocity, software quality, etc.)
• Partner with product, engineering, design and stakeholders to manage dependencies, define schedules, and drive alignment. Understand service interdependencies and lead cross-functional teams towards technical solutions.
• Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance and schedule requirements.
• Define, monitor and improve critical to success metrics for the success of these programs
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.

Your Qualifications

• B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech with 5 - 8 years of total experience, and 4 years of experience in Agile Scrum and in Technical Program Management
• A strong tech foundation in Software engineering, hands-on techie in software product environment in various roles in diverse technologies with a deep understanding of architectural paradigms, design patterns, infrastructure, public cloud, platform engineering.
• Techno-management capabilities and have delivered complex technical programs
• Excellent Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Solid understanding of the current web technologies and ability to ramp up and go deep.
• Deep understanding about product features, architecture, and capabilities with innate curiosity and ability to self-start in an ambiguous and rapidly-changing startup environment

Inclusive Team Culture

Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds.

We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity – 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: Bachelor of Science and 5 years' technical program management experience OR Master of Science and 2 years' technical program management experience OR 8 years' technical program management experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America