Senior Manager, Technology Operations-tms Transportation

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role acts as a bridge between business teams and technology delivery for transportation management and AI-enabled capabilities. It focuses on enabling AI development, supporting the lifecycle management of AI models, and ensuring integration with existing enterprise systems. The role requires strong business-to-technology translation skills and experience working with AI/data engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as the primary business-facing technology partner for STRIDE TMS, translating operational needs into clear technical priorities and execution plans.
  2. Enable AI development initiatives by connecting business use cases (forecasting, optimization, automation, decision support, etc.) to engineering and data teams.
  3. Partner with AI and data engineering teams to define requirements, data dependencies, integration points, and success metrics.
  4. Support responsible AI development by helping operationalize model lifecycle management, monitoring, validation, and adoption across business workflows.
  5. Serve as a cross-system integrator, connecting STRIDE TMS, AI platforms, ERP, planning systems, data platforms, and downstream operational tools.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in technology enablement, tech operations, product operations, or systems integration roles.
  • Strong experience supporting enterprise platforms, preferably Transportation Management Systems (TMS) or large-scale supply chain systems.
  • Proven ability to function as a business-to-technology translator, connecting operational needs with technical execution.
  • Experience working closely with engineering, product, and data/AI teams in an agile or hybrid development environment.
  • Solid understanding of system integrations, APIs, data flows, and dependencies across complex tech stacks.
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Direct experience with TMS platforms (custom or commercial) and transportation or logistics operations.
  • Exposure to AI / ML development lifecycles, including use case framing, data readiness, and model operationalization.
  • Experience enabling or supporting AI-powered decision support or optimization tools within enterprise environments.
  • Prior people management or strong matrix leadership experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations, or a related field

Nice to have

  • MBA or advanced degree a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Development Enablement & Support
  • responsible AI development
  • operationalize model lifecycle management, monitoring, validation, and adoption
  • Drive alignment between AI solutions and existing enterprise systems
  • cross-system integrator
  • connecting STRIDE TMS, AI platforms, ERP, planning systems, data platforms, and downstream operational tools
  • Exposure to AI / ML development lifecycles
  • Experience enabling or supporting AI-powered decision support or optimization tools