(USA) Staff, Technical Program Manager

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Want to be at the forefront of changing how people shop? The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, we are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, transportation, supply chain, talent and more, we are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.

Drive change. Make impact. Join us on our mission. 

We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our Walmart International eCommece Engineering teams (based in Sunnyvale), to own and drive several complex programs, forming a portfolio of efforts that are geared towards achieving Walmart International eCommerce’s business goals.

What you'll do

• Develop broad domain and technical knowledge.
• Influence executives - simplify problems, creating solutions, drive process to timely results.
• Able to communicate clearly on all levels from support to executive levels.
• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and enable the team to be highly effective. 
• Understand key technical dependencies between the cross-functional teams: Data contracts, Infrastructure dependencies like cloud capacity and platform services, and Info sec requirements. Drive the cross-functional teams to think about and plan these dependencies throughout the various stages of the project
• Have a complete view of the program and know how the dependencies affect each team; Use technical judgment to drive project delivery and adjust milestones as dependencies change.
• Setup technology reviews across all the impacted teams, challenge proposals, and build consensus.
• Work closely with architects, engineering managers, and tech leads to ensure that the systems are production-ready and observable - monitoring, alerts, etc.
• Set product and technical milestones, track deliverables, manage expectations, identify risks at the right time, and drive mitigations across all stages of the project.
• Have day-to-day responsibilities for managing complex Agile software development programs and projects to completion.

• Builds roadmaps and Lead large, complex, cross-functional teams within your market and with our stakeholders and partners to initiate, build, delivery and consultation services.
• Develops program/project/release plans and timelines (usually involving multiple tracks), monitors execution progress and drives resolution to possible scope/time trade-offs
• Manages multiple highly complex projects (for example, migrations and system integrations) or a large complex Global eCommerce program in an Agile environment (for example, software development, infrastructure).
• Aligns geographically distributed teams to common business/end-customer/release goals, works cross-functionally to achieve them and ensures accountability to deliver them
• Resolves issues, makes recommendations for improvements to existing processes and develops Program Management best practices.
• Interact and drive communication with key Business Stakeholders, Engineering/ Product Leaders, and Executive sponsors.
• Ability to team with Product managers, Engineers and Engineering leaders to establish and maintain our roadmap, setting appropriate expectations and insuring our product and services meet our high standards for service excellence.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and in