Staff, Technical Program Manager

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

13h•$110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

What you'll do... Position: Staff, Technical Program Manager Job Location: 1 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716 Duties: Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Program Planning & Development: define goals, deliverables, schedules, and critical paths for managing multiple medium- to high-complexity programs within an assigned area of work, in alignment with overall strategic objectives and shifting priorities. Independently secures commitment from teams involved and manage dependencies within an assigned area of work. Resolves ambiguous situations and brings clarity to program teams on end-to-end technology solutions. Independently identifies synergies, overlaps, and waste for program tracks within an assigned area of work. Provides input to improve ways of working. Technical Expertise: participate in end-to-end discussions for high-level system /solution design of simple/medium-complexity systems and demonstrates an understanding of design choices for scalability, high availability, and performance. Ensures dependencies between system contracts are robust and avoid upstream and downstream OE/production issues during development changes. Directs the identification, investigation, reporting, and follow-up for resolution of defects/bugs raised during testing processes or post-production. Independently clarifies requirements with engineering teams through verbal, written, or diagrams of simple system architecture and translates product feature requirement needs into technical designs or details. Understands dependencies between capabilities, software systems, services across assigned pillars. Identifies similar capabilities during planning and execution cycles across various products for possible software reuse opportunities. Ensures effective roll-forward and roll-back plans are in place for every release. Ensure monitoring and alerting are set up and ensure effective operational excellence frameworks are implemented. Establishes end-to-end delivery plans based on impacts and interdependencies between applications (For example: Systems and services across item and customer lifecycles), infrastructure (for example: OS, Network, Stores, Compute, Cloud), and security to ensure quality outcomes for new initiatives and the modernization (for example: EOL, Legacy system retirement, Upgrades) of existing technology stacks. Independently identifies patterns and explores possible solutions to leverage existing capabilities and technology strategies to avoid duplications. For a moderately complex initiative, independently translates end outcomes into system/platform/security-level elements across multiple engineering components/teams to ensure desire goals are achieved. Proposes frameworks, tools, and methodologies that can be adopted to drive automation across initiatives. Establishes methods for effective launch and post-launch by assessing engineering practices for resting, triage, and maintenance, under guidance. Assist in the creation of simple, modular, extensible, and functional design for a product/solution in adherence to requirements. Leveraging Domain Knowledge: demonstrate an awareness of various principles, processes, relevant technology, ways of working, and subdomain-specific terminologies across multiple subdomains within a domain. Anticipates dependencies in operations and processes on a domain, factoring dependencies into program plans. Validates requirements and technology decisions that impact business processes. Identifies areas of innovation across subdomains, shares potential innovations with the leadership team, and drives initiatives.

Requirements

Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, plus 3 years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related experience; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, plus 5 years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related experience.
Must have experience with: Defining goals, deliverables, schedules and critical paths for managing multiple projects/programs with program planning tools using SAP solution manager, JIRA and Microsoft Project
Translating business needs into scalable and robust technical SAP solutions to meet best practices with strong SAP expertise in SAP modules with technical proficiency in SAP ABAP, CRM, S/4 HANA, Cloud and BTP
Defining integration strategies, developing scalable interfaces and troubleshooting integration challenges using SAP PI/PO, OData, SOAP and API Management
Proposing frameworks, tools and methodologies that can be adopted to drive automation across initiatives using S/4 HANA, BTP, SAP Build Process Automation
Monitoring and evaluating the progress of multiple projects in a program against approved milestones, quality metrics, and timelines using project management tools, techniques, and methodologies
Identifying key risks and impacts under guidance from program management to develop mitigation plans using project management frameworks and experience
Developing, executing and driving cutover plans for projects using Microsoft Project and DCut tools
Providing development opportunities for teams by training, mentoring, coaching for success and improvement using leadership and mentorship skills
Developing, Managing, Monitoring and Mitigating Plans to deliver features/RICEFW objects adhering to Agile methodology using JIRA
Managing test plans, test cases and test execution for key testing cycles on projects using HP ALM
Planning, managing and delivering SAP projects using SAP activate methodology
Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs
Develops and communicates business plans and priorities
Removes barriers and obstacles that impact performance
Provides resources
Identifies performance standards
Measures progress and adjusting performance
Develops contingency plans
Demonstrates adaptability and supporting continuous learning
Define goals, deliverables, schedules, and critical paths for managing multiple medium- to high-complexity programs within an assigned area of work, in alignment with overall strategic objectives and shifting priorities
Independently secures commitment from teams involved and manage dependencies within an assigned area of work
Resolves ambiguous situations and brings clarity to program teams on end-to-end technology solutions
Independently identifies synergies, overlaps, and waste for program tracks within an assigned area of work
Provides input to improve ways of working
Participate in end-to-end discussions for high-level system /solution design of simple/medium-complexity systems and demonstrates an understanding of design choices for scalability, high availability, and performance
Ensures dependencies between system contracts are robust and avoid upstream and downstream OE/production issues during development changes
Directs the identification, investigation, reporting, and follow-up for resolution of defects/bugs raised during testing processes or post-production
Independently clarifies requirements with engineering teams through verbal, written, or diagrams of simple system architecture and translates product feature requirement needs into technical designs or details
Understands dependencies between capabilities, software systems, services across assigned pillars
Identifies similar capabilities during planning and execution cycles across various products for possible software reuse opportunities
Ensures effective roll-forward and roll-back plans are in place for every release
Ensure monitoring and alerting are set up and ensure effective operational excellence frameworks are implemented
Establishes end-to-end delivery plans based on impacts and interdependencies between applications (For example: Systems and services across item and customer lifecycles), infrastructure (for example: OS, Network, Stores, Compute, Cloud), and security to ensure quality outcomes for new initiatives and the modernization (For example: EOL, Legacy system retirement, Upgrades) of existing technology stacks
Independently identifies patterns and explores possible solutions to leverage existing capabilities and technology strategies to avoid duplications
For a moderately complex initiative, independently translates end outcomes into system/platform/security-level elements across multiple engineering components/teams to ensure desire goals are achieved
Proposes frameworks, tools, and methodologies that can be adopted to drive automation across initiatives
Establishes methods for effective launch and post-launch by assessing engineering practices for resting, triage, and maintenance, under guidance
Assist in the creation of simple, modular, extensible, and functional design for a product/solution in adherence to requirements
Demonstrate an awareness of various principles, processes, relevant technology, ways of working, and subdomain-specific terminologies across multiple subdomains within a domain
Anticipates dependencies in operations and processes on a domain, factoring dependencies into program plans
Validates requirements and technology decisions that impact business processes
Identifies areas of innovation across subdomains, shares potential innovations with the leadership team, and drives initiatives