Walmart Group Director Technical Program Management 

United States, Arkansas, Bentonville 

179090855

Program Planning & Development:

• impacts an entire domain across the enterprise.

• Secure commitment across the enterprise.

• and address cross-pillar gaps (e.g., dependencies, performance).

• Drive clarity in a program on business/technology solutions/problem statements and build consensus with stakeholders, leaders, and executives.

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Technical Expertise:

• Advises and brokers agreement on end-to-end, high-level system/solution design of complex systems through an understanding of end-to-end systems.

• leveraging knowledge of technical systems.

• Validates and provides solutions to complex problems by conducting impact analysis.

• Proactively checks for design flaws that may lead to outages and recommends alternatives to prevent impacts to customer experiences and business continuity.

• infrastructure** and security to ensure quality outcomes for new initiatives and the modernization^ of existing technology stacks.

• Analyzes the short- and long-term impacts of end-to-end architecture on initiatives and on adjacent areas/domains and recommends solutions.

• establishes frameworks and methodologies to translate end outcomes into system/platform/security-level elements across multiple engineering components/teams to arrive at business goals.

• Develops teams, tools, and methods to transform the operations and effectiveness of teams within a domain and the broader organization.

• Establishes frameworks/methods to influence and/or drive technical decisions across initiatives.

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Leveraging Domain Knowledge:

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• identify areas for the implementation of new processes, automation techniques, and updated ways of working.

• Leads futuristic conversations based on strong market research and technical judgment on the current domain ecosystem.

• Serves as an advisor and partners with stakeholders as a solution design lead for automation for domain-specific clients.

• Assesses and researches the market to selectively adopt technologies and gains leadership sponsorship to drive innovation in the program.

Deliver Program & Results:

• objectives

• new approaches , benchmark industry best practices, and adjust approaches in response to new risks and changing business needs.

• Escalate issues to relevant stakeholders to unblock teams and drive programs.

• Improve the resource efficiency of existing budget inputs and ensure that resource efficiency is a key feature of new and existing programs.

• Design and run programs that turn down non-value-added work and reallocate resources to higher-value efforts.

• very complex , large-scale strategic programs/portfolios and execute lifecycles.

• Oversee the development of project management methodologies, toolkits, and practices and provide guidance and coaching.

• Propose solutions to unlock the highest value of programs despite setbacks.

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• initiate and drive cross-functional projects and processes, prioritize tasks, and demonstrate leadership and influence across product areas to achieve strategic goals.

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• Ingrain data-driven decision-making into ways of working for an organization.

Influential Communication for Alignment:

• Communicate and unify team members around a vision and execute the mission and plans.

• Set near- and medium-term goals and align team members to goals/tradeoffs.

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• leveraging data and analytics, financial acumen, and problem-solving techniques to build a cohesive narrative.

• Modify ways of working, define the framework around sharing and receiving feedback, and guide the implementation of best practices based on industry trends.

• Present to executive leadership/diverse, organization-wide audiences, positioning arguments/data with well-structured stories.

• Establish communication frameworks to converge multiple streams of work for diverse teams.

• Develop artifacts that influence decisions and drive change.

Analytical Problem Solving:

• Develops metrics taxonomy to derive insights from multiple sources and lead discussions.

• Utilizes advanced analysis to predict and explain long-term trends and/or the implications of alternatives.

• Leads complex problem-solving efforts with a broad and deep understanding of both internal and external environments.

• leading fact-finding techniques, judgment, and cascades, leading through data to reach common understanding and shared commitment on agreed-upon actions.

• Question assumptions to clarify articulation of the problem and coach team members.

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Program Stakeholder Management:

• Define stakeholder engagement frameworks, including typical priorities.

• Review engagement of stakeholders through the course of the program in problem solving, areas of risk, review requirements and coach others on engaging effectively.

• Strategically influence stakeholder alignment through changing program scopes, timelines, and deliverables.

• seemingly unrelated approaches/divergent perspectives to arrive at common solutions for the end deliverables of a program in complex situations.

• Proactively manage stakeholders through customized techniques applicable to the audiences across levels.

• the end result of the program.

• Enable trust amongst teams (engineering, product, architects) to execute program deliverables with minimum friction.

• Drive consensus and alignment toward unified solutions during ambiguous situations with diverging approaches.

Portfolio Management:

• objectives and technology roadmap.

• Prioritize projects based on strategic value, risk, and resource availability.

• allocate resources across multiple projects to optimize

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• make adjustments to resource allocation to meet changing project demands.

• Manage the financial aspects of the portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.

• identify potential risks and issues that could impact portfolio performance. Develop and implement strategies to mitigate identified risks.

• Monitor the progress of projects within the portfolio, ensuring they are on track to meet deadlines, budget, and quality standards.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the health and success of the portfolio.

• maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.

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

• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits

• new technology

Program Planning & Development:

• Program management techniques, tools, and frameworks

• Benefits analysis

• Program planning tools and techniques

• Communication tools and processes

Technical Expertise:

• Techniques to translate requirements for software, hardware assets, or platform capabilities

• System/platform design concepts/components and architecture

• Emerging tools and technologies

• Product/Feature Technical Design

• Services, APIs, and technologies within assigned teams/areas

• Software, platforms, and/or Information security standards and guidelines

• Infrastructure components, cloud, data, and development platforms

• Hardware/software lifecycles (EOL, upgrades, migrations)

• Site Reliability Engineering concepts (observability, monitoring, pre-production checklists, incident management)

• Cloud computing technologies

• Service management concepts (ITIL framework)

Leveraging Domain Knowledge:

• Essential aspects of a specific business/domain area

• Industry trends, market segments, and competitor activities

• Domain-related terms and success metrics relevant to program context

Deliver Program & Results:

• Risk management methodologies

• Project management tools, techniques, and methodologies

• Project tracking tools, dashboards, and reports

• tools and processes

• Budgeting and internal and external programs

• Change management

• Critical paths

• Negotiation methodologies

Influential Communication for Alignment:

• Application and allocation of business communication styles/techniques

• Communication channels/mediums

• Program management documents

• Qualitative and quantitative data management

Analytical Problem Solving:

• Data analysis and research

• Problem-solving techniques and frameworks

• Data-driven and fact-based decision-making techniques/methodologies

• Impact analysis and course correction techniques/methodologies

• Precedence and use cases for business problems

• Barriers to effective problem-solving

Program Stakeholder Management:

• Stakeholder identification and engagement

• Processes and ways of working across various groups

• Relationship management techniques

• Techniques to manage conflicting stakeholder priorities and ambiguity

• Stakeholder management strategy

Portfolio Management:

• Strategic and Financial Acumen

• Resource and Risk Management

• Performance and Stakeholder Management

• Governance and Compliance

• Leadership and Team Development

• Execution and Delivery Excellence