Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Walmart's Sourcing Technology team is responsible for building and maintaining software that enables Walmart to source the best quality products at the lowest possible price and pass that savings to our customers so they can Save Money and Live Better. This role will help drive successful software delivery enhancing the user experience with the latest technology acting as a Principal Technical Program Manager leveraging their 10+ years of program management experience and Agile software delivery mindset.
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 Global Sourcing Technical Program Management team driving execution for the organization's largest initiatives, creating tight collaboration between engineering and product, and 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:
Defines goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and key deliverables for large-scale programs that incorporate multiple programs with dependencies across multiple areas of work, timelines, and resource constraints.
Secures commitments for program scopes, delivery dates, and resources and manages cross-functional dependencies across multiple areas 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.
Facilitate work prioritization, proactively identify opportunities for improvements, and help set context for team members to guide decisions for the program based on domain expertise
Demonstrates an awareness of various principles, processes, relevant technology, ways of working, and terminologies across a domain.
Drives monitoring for multiple programs and decomposes performance metrics for programs into measures for different projects.
Independently identifies key risks, determines severity, creates mitigation plan, determines likelihoods, and manages issues to unblock a program with little guidance.
Assesses and manages the likelihood and impacts on multiple areas of work.
Drive alignment and thus, outcomes across multiple stakeholders by leveraging influential communication
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
Defines program success metrics through the extraction of insights.
Identifies difficult problems and systemic gaps that may seem invisible/avoidable on assigned programs.
Drives proactive and constant alignment across all stakeholders toward program goals and results while effectively navigating the team members through changing landscapes and priorities impacting technology, customer experience, and business
What you'll bring:
10+ 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. 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.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more 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.
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 6 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Option 2: 8 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 4 years' experience in product design.
Primary Location...
603 MUNGER AVE STE 400, DALLAS, TX 75202, United States of America
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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.