Principal, Technical Program Manager

Walmart · Retail & E-commerce

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Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

Position Summary

Walmart International is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the International Catalog Platform organization within Walmart Global Tech. The International Catalog team builds and scales the foundational platforms that power item onboarding, supplier enablement, catalog governance, content quality, assortment expansion, marketplace growth, and product discoverability across Walmart’s international markets including Canada, Mexico, Chile, and future growth markets.

As a Principal TPM, you will lead some of the largest and most strategically important platform transformation initiatives within the international business. You will be responsible for defining and driving multi-year technology programs that span multiple product and engineering organizations, influence platform strategy, and deliver measurable business outcomes across markets.

This role requires exceptional program leadership, technical depth, business acumen, stakeholder management, and organizational influence. You will work across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Marketplace, Merchandising, Data Science, and Business leadership teams to drive large-scale catalog modernization and platform investment initiatives. The successful candidate will have a strong record of delivering complex, enterprise-scale programs while shaping strategy, optimizing execution models, and influencing senior leadership.

About the Team

The International Catalog Platform team is responsible for building and operating the systems that enable suppliers and merchants to create, manage, enrich, govern, and scale product catalogs across Walmart International. These platforms support item lifecycle management, content management, taxonomy, assortment expansion, compliance validation, supplier onboarding, search readiness, product discoverability, and catalog operational excellence.

The team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Marketplace, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Data Science, Operations, and Market leadership teams to enable accelerated assortment growth while maintaining quality, governance, compliance, and operational efficiency at scale.

As a Principal TPM, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping the future of Walmart International's Catalog ecosystem and driving technology investments that unlock growth across global markets.

What You'll Do

Strategic Program Leadership

Define goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and success criteria for large-scale catalog initiatives spanning multiple organizations, platforms, and markets.

Lead strategic programs involving catalog modernization, supplier enablement, item management transformation, marketplace expansion, content governance, and platform consolidation.

Establish long-term multi-quarter roadmaps while balancing business priorities, technical constraints, resource availability, and market-specific requirements.

Drive clarity in highly ambiguous situations involving competing business strategies, product priorities, and technology investments.

Secure executive alignment, resource commitments, and delivery ownership across multiple functions.

Identify synergies, capability overlaps, process inefficiencies, and technology duplication opportunities across catalog platforms and products.

Mentor TPMs and drive continuous improvements in program execution methodologies, governance frameworks, and ways of working.

Technical Leadership

Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to define technology strategies and end-to-end execution plans for highly complex distributed systems.

Participate in architecture reviews and influence design decisions that impact scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and operational excellence.

Drive dependency management across multiple platforms, APIs, services, data systems, supplier-facing applications, and downstream consumer experiences.

Evaluate trade-offs across engineering investments, architectural approaches, build-versus-buy decisions, and modernization opportunities.

Ensure engineering teams establish robust release management, rollback strategies, monitoring frameworks, observability capabilities, and operational readiness plans.

Guide platform simplification and standardization efforts through reuse of shared capabilities and elimination of redundant solutions.

Promote automation, engineering productivity improvements, and scalable delivery frameworks across programs.

International Catalog Domain Leadership

Serve as a strategic leader for catalog-related business and technology initiatives across international markets.

Develop deep expertise in catalog management, item lifecycle management, supplier onboarding, assortment expansion, content quality, compliance management, marketplace enablement, product discovery, and catalog governance.

Partner with market, product, and business leaders to identify growth opportunities and technology investments that accelerate business outcomes.

Influence roadmap priorities based on industry trends, competitive analysis, operational needs, and emerging technologies.

Lead impact assessments and due diligence activities to support strategic platform and product decisions.

Drive transformation initiatives that improve supplier experience, item setup speed, catalog accuracy, content completeness, assortment growth, operational efficiency, and customer experience.

Program Delivery Excellence

Own and drive large, cross-functional programs that span multiple engineering organizations and strategic business initiatives.

Define execution frameworks for complex initiatives and decompose vague business problems into actionable workstreams.

Establish scalable governance mechanisms, operating models, reporting cadences, executive reviews, and portfolio management processes.

Continuously reassess program roadmaps and execution plans to identify paths to green for at-risk initiatives.

Build risk management frameworks and proactively remove obstacles impacting delivery.

Drive prioritisation decisions across competing programs, resource constraints, technical dependencies, and market demands.

Implement repeatable, measurable, and scalable processes that accelerate execution while improving quality and predictability.

Optimise utilisation of engineering capacity and technology investments by ensuring effort is focused on the highest-value outcomes.

Executive Stakeholder Management & Communication

Build trusted relationships with senior executives, engineering leaders, product leaders, architects, business stakeholders, operational teams, and market leadership.

Influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights, structured communication, and executive-level storytelling.

Lead discussions involving multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and drive consensus across organizations.

Create executive-ready business reviews, investment proposals, portfolio assessments, risk reports, roadmap presentations, and operational updates.

Drive alignment across cross-functional teams while establishing clear accountability, ownership, governance, and execution frameworks.

Communicate complex technical and business concepts effectively to audiences ranging from engineering teams to executive leadership.

Analytical Problem Solving & Decision Making

Define business and program success metrics aligned to strategic organizational objectives.

Extract insights from engineering, operational, business, customer, and program data to drive decision making.

Identify systemic issues, organizational bottlenecks, and hidden dependencies that impact program outcomes.

Lead resolution of complex business and technology challenges through structured problem-solving methodologies.

Build data-driven prioritisation frameworks to support portfolio planning and investment decisions.

Mentor TPMs and leaders on analytical thinking, problem decomposition, and fact-based decision-making approaches.

Organisation & TPM Leadership

Provide mentorship and guidance to TPMs across the organisation.

Establish best practices for program management, delivery governance, executive communication, portfolio planning, and stakeholder management.

Drive adoption of standardised program management frameworks, tooling, metrics, and reporting models.

Contribute to the growth of the TPM organisation through coaching, capability development, process improvements, and leadership initiatives.

Act as a role model for technical leadership, execution excellence, strategic thinking, and organizational influence.

What You'll Bring

Technical Program Management Expertise

15+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, Software Engineering, Architecture, or related technical leadership roles.

Proven success delivering large-scale, enterprise-wide technology transformation initiatives involving multiple organizations and executive stakeholders.

Extensive experience managing complex software portfolios, platform modernization efforts, and multi-year strategic programs.

Strong understanding of modern software delivery frameworks, Agile methodologies, large-scale planning, portfolio management, and execution governance.

Technical Leadership

Strong technical background with previous experience in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Technical Architecture, or Platform Engineering.

Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, service-oriented architectures, data platforms, and platform engineering principles.

Ability to influence technical strategy, evaluate design trade-offs, and drive architecture discussions with senior engineering leaders.

Experience establishing engineering excellence frameworks covering observability, reliability, security, release management, and operational readiness.

Catalog & Retail Domain Expertise

Significant experience working within retail technology, eCommerce, marketplace platforms, supplier ecosystems, merchandising systems, content management, or catalog platforms.

Strong understanding of item setup, catalog governance, assortment management, taxonomy, supplier onboarding, compliance validation, and content quality.

Experience driving platform transformation efforts that support marketplace growth, supplier enablement, or enterprise catalog strategies.

Leadership & Influence

Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across large, complex organizations.

Strong leadership presence with the ability to navigate ambiguity, organizational change, and competing priorities.

Proven ability to develop strategic partnerships and influence outcomes without direct authority.

Experience mentoring TPMs and building high-performing program management organizations.

Communication & Analytical Excellence

Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication skills.

Expertise creating concise, actionable, and data-driven executive communications and governance artifacts.

Strong analytical capabilities with a passion for solving complex business and technology challenges.

Experience leveraging data and metrics to drive strategic decisions and program execution.

Tools & Technology

Deep expertise with Jira, Jira Align, Big Picture, Confluence, Airtable, portfolio management tools, reporting platforms, and executive dashboarding solutions.

Experience establishing program health frameworks, portfolio reporting models, roadmap planning processes, and dependency management systems.

Leadership Behaviours

Operates with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and customer focus.

Challenges the status quo and drives continuous improvement.

Demonstrates high integrity and respect for the individual.

Brings a strategic mindset balanced with strong execution excellence.

Builds high-trust relationships and inspires teams to deliver exceptional outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field and 10+ years of experience in Engineering, Engineering Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Management, or related disciplines.

15+ years of experience in Engineering, Engineering Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Management, or related disciplines.

Experience leading global platform transformation initiatives across multiple international markets.

Experience managing technology portfolios supporting retail catalog, marketplace, merchandising, supplier management, or content platforms.

Experience leading platform consolidation, modernization, cloud transformation, or large-scale migration programs.

PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent certifications.

Demonstrated success influencing executive leadership and driving organization-wide technology strategy.

Experience mentoring TPM teams and building program management capabilities at scale.

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 experts 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.

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 6 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area. Option 2: 8 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.

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India

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