Walmart Staff Technical Program Manager 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

468739041

As a Staff Technical Program Manager, your main responsibilities will revolve around managing large software development programs. You will work closely with architects engineering, product, design and business leaders to ensure the successful completion of these programs. To do this, you will need to have a deep understanding of software architecture and software design principles. You will also need to demonstrate influential skills by building strong relationships with stakeholders across Walmart, ensuring alignment on roles, responsibilities, and programs cadences. Your role will involve defining 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. Efficient engineering resource utilization and delivery will be a priority, and you will need to simplify and clarify priorities and create plans with appropriate milestones for advance planning and executive buy-in. You will also a resource

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager in software delivery within a related industry managing aggressive schedules and significant business impact.

• Experienced in system/platform design concepts, architecture, UX design, services, APIs, and technologies.

• Build positive relationships and collaborate with product managers to understand target personas and business process needs, which you will then translate into features and user stories that engineers will leverage to iterate products quickly.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a love for data and solving complex problems.

• Expertise in change & risk management methodologies, project management tools, techniques, project tracking tools, dashboards, and reports

• Strong communicator in both verbal and written forms and are equally adept in communicating upwards, outwards, and downward.

• Deep understanding of JIRA, JIRA Align, Big Picture, etc. would be advantageous