STAFF, TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Walmart
Position Summary...
The Global Tech Platform team is looking for highly skilled Staff Technical Program Manager with deep technical expertise in leading highly visible, complex, and cross-organizational initiatives across Cloud, Data, Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering or Developer Platforms. The role operates as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, and Business leaders, owning execution outcomes, delivery rigor, and organizational alignment for critical platform programs with a strong emphasis on AI, Generative AI, and Agentic development capabilities.This role partners deeply with Cloud Engineering, Data Platform, AI/ML, Architecture, SRE, and Product leadership to translate strategic intent into scalable, reliable, and measurable outcomes. The TPM will operate as a force multiplier, ensuring predictable delivery, strong technical alignment, and enterprise‑grade execution for next‑generation platforms.
What you'll do...
About the team
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.
What You’ll Do
- Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale, multi-quarter Cloud, Data & Infrastructure programs that span multiple teams, portfolios, and technology domains, with direct impact on business and platform outcomes
- Act as the single‑threaded owner for complex initiatives, accountable for scope clarity, sequencing, dependency management, and delivery outcomes
- Drive strategic initiatives aligned to GT/GTP-level goals, translating leadership intent into executable roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks across technical, operational, and organizational dimensions, surface trade-offs and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Partner with platform teams to enable enterprise‑ready GenAI and Agentic solutions, including:
- Platform readiness (data pipelines, observability, security, cost controls)
- Agent orchestration, workflow automation, and integration across systems
- Adoption enablement for engineering and product teams.
- Ensure initiatives are delivered with strong governance, including reliability, scalability, responsible AI considerations, and operational readiness.
- Mentor junior Problem Mangers and engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence.
What You’ll bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, technical program management.
- Proven experience leading large‑scale, cross‑functional Cloud, Infrastructure, and/or Data platform programs with significant technical complexity
- Demonstrate working knowledge of system fundamentals, including:
- Service‑oriented and microservices architectures
- Data pipelines, storage layers, and data flow patterns
- Cloud‑native constructs (compute, networking, storage etc)
- Understand how systems behave at scale, including performance, availability, resiliency, and cost implications.
- Read and interpret architecture diagrams (component, sequence, deployment, data flow) with confidence.
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces, set direction, and drive outcomes with minimal oversight
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive‑level storytelling and data‑driven decision support
- Demonstrated leadership behaviors: ownership, accountability, customer empathy, and a strong bias for action
- Identify opportunities to automate and optimize problem management workflows using Agentic AI.
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.
Work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 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.
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area. Option 2: 7 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.