Manager II, Technical Project Management

Position Summary.

What you'll do.

About Us

If you’re thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. At Walmart Global Technology, we don’t just innovate, we enable transformations across stores and different channels for the Walmart experience. With fiscal year 2020 revenue of $523 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a simple and seamless experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics are enabling us to better serve our customers and create a digital relationship with them. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We’re changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores, to mobile, social, and even online; we’re not just ready for the future of shopping, we’re creating it.

Your Opportunity
As part of the Global Data Engineering Team @Walmart Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by being a part of Support and Development team that helps in building best shopping experience for Walmart Customers at our Stores and online. Here you are also required to continuously innovate to lower the development cost, provide greater value to the business and provide best experience to our Business partners and Customers.

Your Responsibility

• Understand, plan, and deliver product requirements scoped by product engineering owners

• Assess team agility maturity and implement appropriate Agile practices— Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban to continuously improve agile ways of working.

• Plan and manage multiple projects in parallel by coordinating with cross functional teams (Product Engineering, QA, DevOps, and Platforms —Hadoop Platform, Data platform) spread across geographies.

• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within agile team.

• Adhere to agile maturity goals defined by the engineering leadership team.

• Manage Agile Ceremonies – Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives etc

• Define, monitor, and improve critical to success metrics (e.g., timely and predictable delivery, Release velocity, Product quality, Product scope, Value addition to customers and business, team performance) for the success of the projects.

• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across cross-functional teams with competing priorities.

• Anticipate and proactively clear bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions and project-related operations to project teams

Our Ideal Candidate
You have a deep interest and passion for team agility. You love helping teams achieve, maintain, and sustain Agile maturity. You would coach and enable teams to continuously improve and deliver value. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field

• 5+ years’ overall work experience in IT related industry

• 2+ years’ experience as a scrum master or Technical program management in product development life cycle

• Capable of managing numerous stakeholders, anticipating their needs, and gaining alignment for strategies from executive level stakeholders

• Strong communication skills (oral, verbal and listening) as well as the ability to influence key decision makers and understand their points of view

• Strong leadership, negotiation, and execution skills with the ability to drive results, deliver and excel, and own it when you don’t

• Experience in practicing agile methodologies – Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban

• Proficiency in using tools such as Jira Board, Confluence

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certification in Business Project Management or Project Management Professional

• Preferred: Project Management experience in Data Analytics domain

Minimum Qualifications.

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor of Science and 5 years' technical program management experience OR Master of Science and 2 years' technical program management
experience OR 8 years' technical program management experience.

Preferred Qualifications.

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location.805 SE MOBERLY LN, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712, United States of America