(usa) Staff, Technical Program Manager

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Dallas, TX

Technical Program Manager role at Walmart focused on managing the delivery of software development processes and defining roadmaps for Smart TVs. Requires strong project management, SDLC, and Agile methodology knowledge, with experience in cross-functional team leadership and stakeholder communication. The role involves planning, execution, risk management, and data analysis to support engineering teams in delivering products and solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. manage delivery of the software development process, and define our roadmap
  2. Driving multi-functional efforts across major technical fields: SW, HW, Product, and QA
  3. Run and lead engineering team to deliver products and solutions for sophisticated embedded systems
  4. Perform overall program-level planning & lead program execution of interdependent projects, and drive effective and accurate status reporting
  5. Be responsible for the identification of risks and issues, and development of risk mitigation strategies and associated processes

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, Information Systems, or similar
  • 8+ years demonstrated ability with both engineering development and project/program management
  • Solid knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies
  • Solid understanding of SDLC
  • Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban development methodologies
  • Good understanding of OS systems, media, and system architecture
  • Sound understanding of UX and UI development
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Excellent planning, time management, organizational and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent with project management tools and capacity planning
  • Solid experience with JIRA & Confluence
  • Solid experience and comfortable partnering with engineering teams throughout feature development from architecture, design, implementation, and validation
  • Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, and timelines for technologies
  • Solid understanding of code repositories (Github/BitBucket) and build process
  • Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years demonstrated ability with both engineering development and project/program management are required
  • Excellent planning, time management, organizational and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent with project management tools and capacity planning is necessary as well as solid experience with JIRA & Confluence