Principal, Technical Program Manager

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What you'll do...

Job Summary:

This role is a department level matrix leader on the Chief of Staff team in Risk Technology in strategic program management. The Chief of Staff team is responsible for implementing strategic program management across department pillars, process maturity in department operations, and other strategic initiatives within the scope of Global Tech operations.

About Team:
We at Walmart are fully committed to leading the business side of technology – how we operate, measure success, and implement solutions. Our team focuses on strategic portfolio acceleration, cross-segment tech enablement, tech talent experience (TTX), portfolio foundations, and technology business operations.

What You'll Do:

• Ensures the effective use of program budgets by ensuring teams work together on the highest value efforts (for example, clear priorities, resource alignment), and are unblocked in completing those efforts. (for example, tracking and managing dependencies).

• Identifies existing work that no longer brings enough added value. Owns and drives complex, large-scale program, executes lifecycles, and mentors team members on best practices. Dynamically reassesses and refines roadmaps, navigating through changes to arrive at paths to green for programs at risk.

• Proactively implements processes and tactics to accelerate timelines. Defines, implements, and improves standard, scalable, measurable, and repeatable workflows and processes for cross-functional teams.

• Resolves ambiguous situations with conflicting business and product strategies and independently drives clarity to program teams/leadership on strategy and end-to-end technology solutions. Identifies synergies, overlaps, and waste for program tracks across multiple areas of work and mentors team members. 

What You'll Bring:

• Embrace Change: Digital Transformation & Change - Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

• Embrace Change: Curiosity & Courage - 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.

• Focus on our Associates: Collaboration & Influence - Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

• Live our Values: Servant Leadership - Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent 

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.

Ways of Working:
We use a hybrid