Director, Technical Program Management

Position Summary...

As a Director on the Platform Strategy team, you’ll play a central role in defining the direction and priorities of the organization. You’ll partner with technology and business leaders across a broad range of topics—including AI, developer productivity, cloud, and more—to frame, define, and facilitate strategies for the enterprise’s most important priorities. Importantly, our associates and leadership teams will rely on you to bridge the gap between their daily activities and business outcomes.

About Team:
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.

What you'll do...

• Analyze and solve complexities and problems with domain experts—including framing, analysis, narrative building, and facilitation
• Align platform strategies with global technology priorities
• Crafting and socializing clear, concise, and engaging technology strategies (e.g., whitepapers, slides)
• Distilling complex information into clear, actionable insights for leadership and associates to build visibility for key initiatives across senior leadership
• Identifying opportunities to improve the end-to-end strategy planning process, within the organization and across our sister organizations
• Forming and owning relationships with key business and technology leaders

What you'll bring:

• You’ll be challenged to synthesize insights from several internal and external sources to solution complex, ambiguous problem sets across a range of topics.
• To be successful in this role, you must have world-class ability to dissect complex, technical concepts and translate them for several audiences (e.g., executives, in-store associates, developers).
• You must be comfortable in challenging assumptions, facilitating difficult decision-making, presenting to executives, and context switching across several technical domains.

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 expert's 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.

Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s 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 connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.  

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey. 

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and