Staff, Technical Program Manager - Global Technology

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmarts International Merchandising and Sourcing Technology team is tasked with developing and sustaining software platforms that empower Walmart to procure high-quality products at the most competitive prices and make them available where our customers need them at the best price, enabling them to save money and live better. In this role as a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will utilize your over seven years of technical program management experience and Agile software delivery expertise to facilitate successful software delivery, improving the Merchant and Sourcing associate experience through the latest technology. 
About Team:
Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.

What you'll do: You will be part of the International Merchandising and Sourcing technical program management team driving execution for some of the organizations largest initiatives including an Omni Pricing platform, creating tight collaboration between data science, engineering, product, and user experience improving our ways of working. You will focus on developing and implementing process improvements for delivering and monitoring programs to ensure team operational efficiency and compliance. Additional responsibilities include the following:

• Define goals, deliverables, schedules, and critical paths for managing multiple medium- to high-complexity programs within an assigned area of work, in alignment with overall strategic objectives and shifting priorities.
• Independently secure commitment from teams involved and manages dependencies within an assigned area of work.
• Apply technical understanding and judgement in developing end-to-end delivery plans for complex solutions that span multiple engineering teams. This includes independently identifying potential technical dependencies, managing design and architecture with engineering teams, guiding on tradeoff decisions, and ensuring the right development best practices and processes are being applied systemically to enable the right balance of speed, resiliency, and quality.
• Independently monitor and evaluate the progress of multiple projects in a program against approved milestones, quality metrics, and timelines
• Identify key risks and impacts under guidance from program teams/management to develop mitigation plans (solutions/options) and likelihood for managing issues
• Develop consistent data-driven approaches and decision-making frameworks to remove program roadblocks and proactively drives business outcomes by analyzing program landscapes, changing priorities, and interdependencies

What you'll bring:

• 7+ years of Agile mindset and delivery of managing programs and projects using Scrum and Kanban
• Organization around deliverables using a software system such as Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
• Capacity Management expertise over multiple software development teams
• Willingness to always learn and grow as an individual and team member
• Be a leader and change advocate 
• Unbiased perspective when solving problems 

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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. Walmarts culture is a competitive advantage, and its fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed.  We use our campuses to create purposeful con