Senior Director, Technical Program Management

Role Overview

• Manage a large portfolio of multiple highly complex projects by driving projects through the lifecycle phases to successful completion as defined in project's charter;
• Serving as the program lead for multiple projects;
• Developing and maintaining a project schedule to track milestones;
• Developing and executing plans for managing risk;
• Escalating project-related issues to management in accordance with project guidelines and requirements;
• Managing project change control processes;
• Coordinating production issue resolution;
• Interpreting data to help guide teams towards issue resolution and risk management;
• Making recommendations regarding solutions to problems or issues;
• Presenting project status updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices;
• Supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs;
• Building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Create the program structure and share alignment with the program team across Walmart on vision, business goals, program, and secure cross-functional teams dependencies' commitment.
• Lead executive committee meetings with key stakeholders to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues.
• Provide ongoing visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) to all stakeholders.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent program teams from delivering program outcomes.
• Manage new and existing technologies integration.
• Create a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, speed, innovation, and learning.
• Be a thought leader who can help accelerate the delivery capabilities and challenge others to change.

Requirements

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 8 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Option 2: 10 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Extensive experience in the design, development and delivery of software products with a massive customer base.
• Strong track record in a senior architecture or program management role with large-scale software development projects.
• A clear vision for architecture design and great communication skills to articulate that to all levels of stakeholders.
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Thorough understanding distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, and data structures and algorithms.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Business acumen; combining technical vision with business insights.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

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.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.