Staff Technical Program Manager

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

10d•$110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

The Staff Technical Program Manager mentors and develops project managers, monitors program and project progress, reports status to stakeholders and management, and helps ensure project-management skills align with PMO standards. The role promotes and improves Walmart Global eCommerce project-management methodologies, including Agile, and provides guidance on methodology and practice. The position manages multiple highly complex projects or a large Global eCommerce program from charter through successful completion. It leads projects, maintains schedules, manages risks and change control, coordinates production issue resolution, interprets data to guide issue resolution, recommends solutions, and presents updates to senior leaders and stakeholders. It also develops project and program scope, budgets, expense forecasts, metrics, resource plans, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with subject-matter experts. The role manages geographically distributed teams, offshore development teams, and third-party vendors, coordinating schedules and priorities, aligning teams and vendors with project strategy, communicating status, assessing system capabilities, and ensuring functionality and delivery. It applies current expertise and best practices, supports business needs, builds stakeholder partnerships, monitors outcomes, identifies improvement opportunities, and adapts to changing priorities and responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in technical project management or related experience; OR a master’s degree or equivalent in one of those fields and 2 years of such experience.
Experience developing software solutions, including using Java or Python.
Experience coding with Java and Python.
Experience designing data integration pipelines using ESB Pipeline, IBM Data Stage, IBM Integrated Bus (IIB), SAP BODS, or SAP Hana.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise integrations using Managed File Transfers (MFT) technology.
Experience managing code repositories in GitHub.
Experience grooming backlogs and prioritizing epics in Jira.
Experience managing data using Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and HIVE.
Experience designing and developing Unix shell scripts for data enrichment, data purging, and data transfers.
Experience analyzing data using SQL and PL/SQL.
Experience handling data integrations using pub-sub technology such as Kafka.

Responsibilities

Mentor project managers, monitor program and project progress, and provide status reports and executive summaries to stakeholders and management.
Develop project managers whose skills align with established PMO standards, and guide peers and management on project-management methodology and practice.
Promote, develop, and improve Global eCommerce project-management methodologies, including Agile, and communicate needed changes through established feedback channels.
Manage multiple highly complex projects or a large Global eCommerce program through its lifecycle to successful completion as defined in the project charter.
Lead projects, maintain schedules and milestones, develop and execute risk-management plans, escalate issues, manage change control, and coordinate production issue resolution.
Interpret data to guide teams in issue resolution and risk management, recommend solutions, and present project status updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
Collaborate with subject-matter experts to define project scope, forecast expenses, develop and manage budgets, establish metrics, plan capital and resources, and develop timelines and deliverables.
Ensure successful project delivery and provide feedback regarding project success.
Manage geographically distributed and offshore teams and third-party vendors by coordinating schedules and priorities, integrating them into project strategy, communicating status, assessing system capabilities, and ensuring sustainable functionality and proper delivery.
Provide expert advice on information and best practices, support customer and business needs, and build commitment for perspectives and rationales.
Build stakeholder relationships, identify business needs, implement necessary processes and practices, monitor progress and results, identify improvement opportunities, and adapt to competing demands and organizational changes.