Walmart
2 days ago
Position Summary...
What youll do...
About the role:
The Group Director of Technical Program Management will oversee and implement strategic programs across the enterprise to align with business objectives. This role requires deep technical knowledge and cross-functional leadership to mentor teams, manage complex projects, and influence stakeholders. Specifically, this role will partner with the business, product and engineering to focus on enhancing our in-store, pickup and delivery experiences for customers and associates and evolving the future of merchandising, replenishment and suppliers.
What you will do:
Defines and implements program strategy impacting an entire domain.
Secures enterprise-wide commitment and address cross-pillar dependencies.
Drives clarity on business/technology problem statements and requirements and builds consensus with stakeholders, leaders, and executives.
Advises and brokers agreement on end-to-end system/solution design of complex systems and validates complex problems through impact analysis.
Proactively checks for design flaws that may lead to outages and recommends alternatives to prevent impacts to customer experiences and business continuity.
Identifies gaps/opportunities within or between services, tools, and workflows across the architectural landscape and recommends solutions.
Establishes innovative approaches to manage delivery plans, and ensure quality outcomes.
Develops teams, tools, and methods to transform operations and effectiveness of teams.
Defines, owns and drives very complex, large-scale strategic programs/ portfolios and escalates issues to relevant stakeholders.
Monitors industry trends and leads futuristic conversations based on strong market research and technical judgment to define the future state of a domain as well as adjust to new risks and changing business needs.
Builds, leads and mentors a high-performing team – tracking team productivity, defining prioritization, allocating resources, mentoring associates, and hiring the right talent.
Live our Values: Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmarts commitment to communities, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
Servant Leadership: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Embrace Change: Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Digital Transformation & Change: Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmarts business model.
Deliver for the Customer: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first.
Partnership: Ability to influence and partner with business leaders, strategy, product, engineering, design, technical architects and fellow technical program managers.
Platform Mindset: Do not operate in a silo but operate with a mindset that looks cross-functionally for opportunities to leverage existing capabilities or capabilities with commonalities to be built once.
Data Driven: Leverage technology metrics, business benefit metrics and financial data to help steer prioritization discussions.
What you will bring:
Expertise in program management techniques, tools, and frameworks.
Strong technical knowledge in system/platform design and emerging technologies.
Proven ability to lead complex problem-solving efforts and influence technical decisions.
Excellent communication skills to unify team members, influence stakeholders, and present to executive leadership.
Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder engagement and drive consensus.
Experience in defining performance objectives and metrics for tracking program completion.
Leadership qualities to build and lead a high-performing team while managing cross-functional projects.
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 experts 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.
Ways of Working:
Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. Our associates work onsite the majority of the time, with flexibility. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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 Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors 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.
Sunnyvale, California US-04397:The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00-$481,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09050:The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00-$370,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 9 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.• Option 2: 11 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Certification in Project Management., Master’s degree in Business Administration, with specialization in strategy, supply chain, finance, information systems, or related area and 7 years’ experience in product design., Supervisory, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.