Principal Technical Program Manager
Walmart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bangalore • India
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About the role
- Drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs.
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties.
- Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives.
- Coordinate the rollout of data products, ensuring they are robust, compliant, and deliver measurable business value.
- Own observability, billing, metering, and reporting for each product, while embedding governance, analytics, and AI/ML enablement.
- Manage program planning, change management, and stakeholder engagement across clusters.
- Ensure disciplined execution and risk mitigation across assigned initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management managing programs and projects, with a focus on enterprise data platforms
- Clear communicator with growing proficiency in systems thinking and ability to escalate risks and dependencies effectively.
- Experience collaborating with distributed teams, with awareness of regional compliance requirements.
- Experience supporting delivery of SSOT, MDM, or unified data fabric programs, or contributing to software/data transformation efforts within a defined scope.
- Working knowledge of cloud and data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks, DataLake, GCP, Azure), ETL/ELT systems, and reporting/analytics tools.
- Familiarity with data contracts, RBAC, and basic concepts of billing and metering, with guidance from Principal TPMs.
- Exposure to AI/ML frameworks and GenAI concepts, with ability to support integration efforts led by senior TPMs.
- Familiarity with governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan) and ability to support metadata and policy enforcement under guidance.
- Active contributor to TPM communities of practice, with interest in learning and applying best practices.
- Proficient in Agile development, JIRA/Confluence, and managing team-level capacity and throughput.
Benefits
- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Technical Program Managemententerprise data platformsSSOTMDMunified data fabriccloud platformsETL systemsreporting toolsAI/ML frameworksgovernance
Soft skills
clear communicatorsystems thinkingrisk escalationcollaborationstakeholder engagementmentoringchange managementdisciplined executionorganizational skillsinterest in best practices