Director, Technical Program Management

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Mississauga, ON

This role is for a Director of Technical Program Management at Walmart, focusing on guiding and influencing stakeholders to keep programs on track, resolve challenges, and ensure alignment. Responsibilities include building cohesive narratives, presenting options, leading complex discussions, brokering agreement on system design, reviewing delivery plans, and managing program budgets and roadmaps. The role emphasizes leadership expectations around respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. This role guides and influences program participants and stakeholders, focusing on decision points, options for end outcomes, and solutions that unblock and de-risk programs.
  2. Utilizing fact-based data and analytics insights, this role may build cohesive narratives, present options, solutions, and decisions clearly, and provide timely feedback.
  3. Technical expertise is crucial for this role, which may lead and broker agreement on end-to-end system design of medium/high-complexity systems.
  4. Delivering program results involves driving monitoring for multiple programs, decomposing performance metrics, identifying key risks, and managing issues to unblock programs.
  5. By simplifying concurrent deliverables and managing queuing for engineering teams, this role ensures prioritization frameworks for dynamic resequencing of initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • Technical Program Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • System Design
  • Roadmap Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Budget Management
  • Leadership
  • Communication

Nice to have

  • Mentoring
  • Data Analysis
  • Process Improvement
  • Automation Techniques
  • Impact Analysis