STAFF, TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 14
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
GDF sits at the core of Walmart's AI & Data organization, building the foundational data platforms that enable teams across Walmart to build with trustworthy, well-governed, discoverable data; its platforms serve billions of transactions across 19 countries. The role is the founding Technical Program Manager for a newly formed platform team, standing up program structure, delivery cadence, and governance from a blank page. It involves managing large cross-cutting software and platform programs end-to-end, partnering with architects and engineering leaders, and championing AI-augmented program management practices.
What you will do
- Serve as the founding TPM for a newly created platform team — standing up program structure, delivery cadence, and governance where none previously existed.
- Manage large, cross-cutting software/platform development programs end-to-end, partnering closely with architects and engineering leaders on architectural decision-making.
- Define goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and key deliverables for programs spanning multiple workstreams, dependencies, timelines, and resource constraints.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across GDF, AI & Data, and downstream consuming teams — driving alignment on roles, responsibilities, and delivery cadences.
- Establish a resource capacity allocation process and tooling to bring planning rigor to a fast-moving, newly formed org.
- Drive efficient engineering resource utilization; simplify and clarify priorities into plans with milestones suitable for advance planning and executive buy-in.
- Identify and champion AI-augmented program management practices — e.g., using AI to auto-summarize status updates, flag at-risk milestones from ticket/PR signal, or generate stakeholder-ready reporting — and work with tooling/eng leads to actually implement them.
- Navigate setbacks and ambiguity with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills — this is a 0→1 team, so comfort operating without a fully paved path is essential.
- Represent the platform team in leadership/executive reviews, translating technical delivery status into business-relevant narrative.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent; 10+ years of overall technical experience, including 6+ years in a Technical Program Management leadership role delivering software programs with aggressive schedules and significant business impact.
- Proven experience standing up new programs/teams from scratch — comfortable defining process, cadence, and governance rather than just operating within an existing one.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to effectively manage and motivate a team of technical program managers and engineers.
- Experience supporting and executing a large software/platform portfolio while collaborating with multiple business stakeholders.
- Solid grounding in system/platform design concepts, architecture, technical design, services, APIs, and data platform technologies (data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, governance frameworks).
- AI-forward program management skillset: Practical experience using GenAI tools (e.g., Copilot-style assistants, internal LLM platforms) to accelerate program artifacts — status reports, risk summaries, requirement drafts, meeting-notes-to-action-items. Familiarity with AI-assisted meeting intelligence (e.g., auto-transcription/summarization of Teams/Zoom calls) and using it to close the loop on decisions and action items faster. Working understanding of how AI/ML and agentic systems get built and deployed (MLOps basics, model lifecycle, data quality dependencies) — enough to program-manage platform work that directly enables AI use cases. Curiosity and judgment to identify where AI genuinely helps a program (signal, not noise) versus where it's a distraction.
- Ability to build positive relationships with product managers, translating target personas and business needs into features/user stories engineers can act on.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a love for data and solving complex, ambiguous problems.
- Expertise in change & risk management methodologies, project tracking tools, dashboards, and executive reporting.
- Excellent verbal and written communicator — equally adept communicating upward, outward, and downward.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with JIRA, JIRA Align, Big Picture, Airtable, or equivalent program tooling.
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area. Option 2: 7 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International