(USA) Senior Manager, Technical Program Management
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Role summary:As a Senior Manager on Catalog's Item Integrity team, you will operate at the intersection of platform strategy, data systems, and enterprise execution. You will help shape how Walmart defines, protects, and scales item data across omnichannel contexts.
This platform-oriented leadership role blends strategy, execution, and systems thinking. You will connect business needs to durable technical solutions and drive clarity in complex environments where modern platforms are being built and legacy systems modernized.
You will partner with product managers, engineers, architects, data scientists, and business stakeholders across merchandising, ecommerce, supply chain, and operations, requiring strong judgment, adaptability, and an enterprise perspective.
About the team:
Catalog is a foundational enterprise platform that supports every part of the business, including merchandising, compliance, pricing, supply chain, fulfillment, store operations, ecommerce, and global expansion. The Item Integrity team is responsible for defining and evolving the item data model, item relationships, and data quality standards that enable these systems to work together at scale.
Our mission is to ensure item data is accurate, trusted, interoperable, and built for today’s operations and tomorrow’s intelligent automation. We modernize legacy assumptions, strengthen product identity, reduce friction in item and offer setup, and build capabilities that allow the catalog to maintain and improve itself.
What you'll do:
- Drive clarity in ambiguous spaces by aligning teams on goals, scope, requirements, and prioritization.
- Translate business goals into sequenced execution, identifying gaps, defining requirements, and aligning cross-functional teams.
- Shape and drive platform strategy for Walmart’s item data model, item relationships, catalog data quality, and item integrity capabilities.
- Advance catalog modernization, including self-cleaning capabilities, legacy relationship transformation, and centralized data foundations.
- Partner with product, engineering, and architects to translate strategic goals into scalable, extensible platform designs.
- Provide visibility and accountability through metrics, risk management, dependency management, and executive-ready communication.
- Champion enterprise outcomes by ensuring catalog is accurate, trustworthy, interoperable, and built to support future automation and intelligence.
What you'll bring:
- Intellectual curiosity and passion for modernizing foundational systems to enable automation and smarter decisions.
- Systems thinking across data models, platforms, business processes, and omnichannel contexts.
- Comfort pioneering solutions where the path forward is undefined and requires creativity, experimentation, and sound judgment.
- Ability to solve complex problems and navigate competing stakeholder perspectives.
- Clear communication with technical, business, and senior leadership audiences, simplifying complexity without losing rigor.
- Ability to move between architecture discussions, strategic framing, and executive communication.
- Strong owner mindset and bias to action, balancing near-term pragmatism with long-term platform health.
- Experience leading complex platform or data-centric initiatives at enterprise scale.
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 https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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.
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., Supervisory, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.