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(USA) Principal, Technical Program Manager - Technology Strategy and Commercialization
(USA) Principal, Technical Program Manager - Technology Strategy and Commercialization-June 2024
Bentonville
Jun 21, 2026
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About (USA) Principal, Technical Program Manager - Technology Strategy and Commercialization

  Position Summary...

  What you'll do...

  As a Technical Program Manager in Walmart's Technology Strategy and Commercialization department this role will be an enabler of our vision to be a fully optimized Technical Portfolio Organization and support our mission to drive modernizing legacy applications, modernization of tech stack, and elimination of technical debt which is leading our company towards our next retail disruption. In today's environment, the TPM will work with all organizations/pillars to remove technical debt from our store and club ecosystem. This includes all levels of escalations and reporting up through CTO of Walmart Global Tech.

  This position is Bentonville-based where you will have opportunities to interact with various stakeholder groups and leaders, from all organizations within Global Tech and other business groups from across Walmart.

  About Team:

  At Walmart, we prioritize digital transformation and eliminating technical debt. Next Gen Tech Stack (NGTS) promotes and serves as key accelerators in Walmart's global digital transformation by partnerships with engineering, product, and business teams to further strengthen our competitive advantage through modernizing the technology ecosystem in key areas while reducing total cost of ownership, eliminating enterprise risk and technical debt.

  What you'll do:

  Support, guide, and develop the best-in-class Technical Project and Program Managers focused on innovative ways of working while delivering on complex NGTS initiatives.

  You will lead by influencing the technical programs across multiple organizations and pillars using strong leadership skills, great verbal and written communication skills.

  You will use your advanced knowledge of Core Project Management and Agile principles including the Hybrid and SCRUM methodology and ability to apply them to lead and provide guidance to a team of Technical Project Managers (TPM) supporting the initiative.

  You will create / maintain program level delivery roadmap for products and/or capabilities within a complex NGTS initiative.

  You will have indirect influence across multiple organizations/pillars and build strong partnerships across these horizontals/verticals.

  You will demonstrate the ability to lead others in delivery setting expectations.

  You will manage multiple technical project oversight of varying complexities.

  You will demonstrate the ability to partner with Infrastructure teams to coordinate roadmaps and decommission planning.

  You will be responsible for financial planning at the LRP, AOP level for complex NGTS initiatives.

  What you'll bring:

  Strong at establishing partnerships across horizontals/verticals.

  Strong at establishing strategies and driving delivery of multiple low to high complexity projects.

  Strong understanding of portfolio operations and project methodologies (Traditional, hybrid, Agile (Scrum/Kanban)).

  Solid leadership skills (influence, coaching, gaining respect, indirect authority, hold others accountable to plans, strategic communicator).

  People Development: Demonstrates strong leadership qualities and applies managing up principles.

  Ability to operate at the executive level (strong communicator, negotiator).

  Ability to deal with ambiguities, risks, and unknowns, and you understand what it takes to build the right stakeholder engagement.

  Exhibit a problem-solving mindset focused on holistic systems solutions.

  Microsoft, Expert Excel skills including formula writing and executive level PowerPoint PPTs.

  Professional certification such as PMP, CSM, etc.

  Professional experience in a tech firm / first education degree in tech field

  About Walmart Global Tech

  Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

  People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

  Flexible, hybrid work:

  We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

  Benefits:

  Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

  Equal Opportunity Employer:

  Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

  Minimum Qualifications...

  Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.

  • Option 2: 8 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.

  Preferred Qualifications...

  Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

  Certification in Project Management., Master's degree in Business Administration, with specialization in strategy, supply chain, finance, information systems, or related area and 4 years' experience in product design.

  Primary Location...

  702 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America

  Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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