Distinguished, Technical Program Manager,Technology Strategy & Execution Excellence

About the role

We are seeking a Distinguished Technical Program Manager to establish and lead the operating mechanisms that connect technology strategy to execution across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior technology leadership to define and operationalize multi-year technology strategies and investment priorities.
• Lead annual and quarterly planning processes, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives, business outcomes, and engineering roadmaps.
• Establish frameworks that connect vision, strategy, goals, initiatives, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Facilitate strategic reviews, planning forums, and decision-making sessions with executive leadership.
• Translate ambiguous business and technology priorities into actionable plans, clear ownership, and measurable deliverables.
• Lead the development, governance, and tracking of technology goals, OKRs, KPIs, and operational metrics.
• Build mechanisms to identify execution risks, dependencies, and opportunities early.
• Continuously improve measurement frameworks to assess organizational effectiveness, delivery health, and strategic progress.
• Use data, insights, and performance trends to guide leadership decisions and drive course correction.
• Drive end-to-end technology roadmap management across multiple engineering, platform, and product organizations.
• Create portfolio-level visibility into investments, dependencies, milestones, delivery commitments, and resource constraints.
• Enable effective trade-off discussions through data-driven insights, executive-ready recommendations, and clear decision options.
• Identify synergies, overlaps, duplicative efforts, and areas of waste across program tracks and portfolios.
• Own and continuously evolve executive reporting and operating mechanisms, including:
• Weekly Business Reviews
• Monthly Business Reviews
• Quarterly Business Reviews
• Annual planning and strategy reviews
• Executive scorecards and dashboards
• Drive high-quality narratives, insights, and decision-focused reviews that enable leadership action.
• Standardize reporting frameworks while balancing organizational flexibility, scale, and maturity.
• Create mechanisms that improve leadership visibility and accelerate decision-making across complex programs.
• Lead large-scale, cross-functional programs that are critical to strategic technology and business objectives.
• Establish governance models, escalation paths, execution frameworks, and operating cadences across multiple organizations.
• Drive operational rigor through planning rhythms, dependency management, risk mitigation, milestone tracking, and delivery governance.
• Define and improve scalable, measurable, and repeatable workflows across cross-functional teams.
• Dynamically reassess and refine roadmaps, helping teams navigate change and return at-risk programs to a path to green.
• Champion continuous improvement of organizational processes, delivery mechanisms, and ways of working.
• Apply strong technical judgment to understand complex systems, platforms, architecture, infrastructure, and software delivery lifecycles.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to evaluate end-to-end solution designs, system dependencies, scalability considerations, and boundary conditions.
• Review delivery plans with an understanding of current and future product use cases, infrastructure needs, security impacts, and modernization requirements.
• Identify and reduce technical duplication, unnecessary dependencies, and misalignment across initiatives.
• Establish mechanisms for effective defect management, launch readiness, observability, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Promote simple, modular, extensible, and customer-focused design principles across products and platforms.
• Extend program plans to include change management, communications, launch planning, marketing, field enablement, and operational readiness where needed.
• Lead impact analysis and due diligence to guide build-versus-buy decisions.
• Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improved processes, and new ways of working across domains.
• Connect technology execution to customer outcomes, business value, operational efficiency, and long-term strategic priorities.
• Influence and align senior executives, engineering leaders, product leaders, finance partners, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology leadership on organizational health, execution effectiveness, and strategic priorities.
• Secure stakeholder buy-in for roadmaps, program scopes, timelines, and delivery commitments.
• Resolve conflicting priorities and ambiguity by driving clarity, alignment, and shared ownership.
• Communicate complex topics through clear narratives, structured artifacts, and fact-based recommendations.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in program management techniques, tools, frameworks, benefits analysis, planning methods, communication processes, and delivery governance.
• Proven ability to define goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, key milestones, and deliverables for large-scale programs.
• Experience managing multiple programs with dependencies across teams, timelines, resources, and business priorities.
• Strong command of risk management, project management methodologies, tracking tools, dashboards, financial management, budgeting, change management, and critical path planning.
• Ability to monitor multiple programs, decompose performance metrics, identify risks, assess severity, build mitigation plans, and unblock teams.
• Experience managing large-scale program lifecycles while mentoring others on best practices.
• Ability to define objectives for ambiguous programs and break them into executable sub-projects, workstreams, and parallel delivery paths.
• Strong data analysis, research, diagnostic, and fact-based decision-making skills.
• Ability to define program success metrics and extract insights from multiple data sources.
• Experience identifying systemic gaps, difficult problems, and hidden risks across complex programs.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, clarify problem statements, and coach others on structured problem-solving methods.
• Strong judgment in using data, qualitative feedback, business context, and operational signals to guide decisions.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including written narratives, business reviews, whitepapers, decision documents, scorecards, and dashboards.
• Ability to tailor communication style to stakeholder needs, organizational context, and decision forums.
• Strong relationship management skills with the ability to navigate conflicting priorities and ambiguity.
• Experience securing stakeholder buy-in for roadmaps, program plans, and delivery commitments.
• Ability to connect stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and align teams around common solutions.
• Experience supporting stakeholders through significant program, organizational, or process changes.
• Strategic direction by analyzing business objectives, customer needs, operating models, cost considerations, forecasts, and resource requirements.
• Evaluation of operational processes, identification of improvement opportunities, and sponsorship of continuous learning.
• Building and maintaining a highly skilled, engaged workforce by identifying capability gaps, supporting talent development, mentoring others, and enabling succession planning.
• Cultivating an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics.
• Developing and leveraging internal and external partnerships to maximize business outcomes.
• Engaging stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of business plans and strategic initiatives.

Benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see here.