Principal, Technical Program Manager

Reference: R-2686756

Posted:

Location:

BELLEVUE, WA, United States Type:
Full time / Regular/Permanent Company:
Walmart Business Segment:
Home Office Position:
Principal, Technical Program Manager

Job Location:

10900 NE 4th St #13th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98004

Duties:
Coordinate program reviews focused on feature delivery, platform scalability, risk tracking, and performance improvement across Customer Data Platform systems. Participate in development and execution of program roadmaps and schedules across multiple feature development work streams. Track progress through defined cadences and report status against milestones and objectives to teams and cross-functional stakeholders. Coordinate with engineering, product management, and other cross-functional teams to identify development challenges and support alignment with system architecture, data models, and integration requirements.

Support implementation of solutions to improve platform performance, scalability, and delivery efficiency. Analyze system behavior and performance metrics to identify risks related to availability, latency, data processing, and system reliability. Track issues and support mitigation activities to enable stable feature delivery. Support change management activities to enable controlled rollout of platform features, including coordination of validation, monitoring, and release readiness.

Define and apply program processes, workflows, and status reporting practices to support consistent execution across development initiatives. Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance development workflows and system performance. Facilitate working sessions with engineers and subject matter experts to define feature scope, technical approaches, and delivery plans. Translate business requirements into structured program activities aligned with platform capabilities and technical constraints.

Develop and maintain program reporting mechanisms to track program status and key delivery indicators. Ensure alignment with non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, data integrity, and system stability. Coordinate dependencies across teams and systems, track risks and issues, and support alignment on delivery timelines. Communicate program updates, risks, and status to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The Customer Data Platform supports systems for customer identity resolution, data integration, segmentation, and analytics across enterprise applications.

This position does not supervise other employees.

Minimum education and experience required:
Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (Any), Management of Technology, or related area and 6 years of post-bachelor’s progressively responsible experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (Any), Management of Technology,  or related area and 3 years of post-bachelor’s progressively responsible experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.

Skills required:

Experience designing and supporting enterprise software systems integrated with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Experience creating sequence diagrams, context diagrams, data flow diagrams, process flows, and architectural diagrams using tools such as MS Visio to document end-to-end workflows and interactions between enterprise applications. Experience designing end-to-end technical solutions across third-party enterprise software and custom-built applications. Experience working…