Walmart is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead the execution of foundational data capabilities across the enterprise, delivering unified, governed, and scalable data products and enabling the Single Source of Truth (SSOT) platform across markets and business-critical systems.
Requirements
- Strong technical acumen: able to engage in discussions on architecture, design patterns, and system integrations.
- Strong technical fluency in cloud and data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks, DataLake, GCP, Azure), ETL/ELT systems, and data governance.
- Solid understanding of data contracts, RBAC, billing, and metering, with exposure to multi-tenancy and TCO considerations.
- Familiarity with global privacy, access control, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD) protocols.
- Working familiarity with AI/ML frameworks, GenAI, and agentic systems, with ability to support integration efforts.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams and navigating multi-regional compliance requirements.
- Proficient in Agile development, JIRA/Confluence, and managing team capacity and throughput.
Responsibilities
- Convert AI/ML strategies into actionable program roadmaps, ensuring disciplined execution across global teams.
- Oversee Staff Data TPMs and AI/ML Delivery TPMs to ensure consistency and alignment across clusters.
- Manage cross-program dependencies, AI/ML enablement across products, and execution of SSOT rollouts with AI-enhanced data capabilities.
- Drive phased AI/ML deployments, market onboarding, and compliance readiness.
- Own delivery of data products and SSOT platforms with embedded AI observability, monitoring, and intelligent telemetry.
- Oversee platform architecture and infrastructure readiness to support ML workloads and AI-first data pipelines.
- Implement enterprise-level observability, cost transparency, billing, security, and compliance for AI-driven data platforms.
Other
- 10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management managing programs and projects, with a focus on enterprise data platforms
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
- Certification in Project Management.
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, with specialization in strategy, supply chain, finance, information systems, or related area and 4 years’ experience in product design.
- Ability to drive clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams.
