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Position: Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Ensures project manager development and continued successful performance by providing mentoring; monitoring program and individual project progress; providing periodic project status reports and executive summaries to stakeholders and management; developing new project managers to ensure skills are aligned with established Project Management Organization (PMO) standards; and providing mentorship and guidance to peers and management on methodology and practice. Develops project management practices by adhering to the principles of the Walmart Global eCommerce (GEC) project management methodologies (for example, Agile); promoting the principles and business value of the project methodologies throughout the organization; leading and contributing to the development and improvement of the Global eCommerce project methodologies; leading lessons learned meetings; and participating in established feedback channels. Manages geographically distributed teams, off-shore development teams and third-party vendors (for example, software vendors, hardware vendors, photo vendors, content providers) by coordinating internal and vendor schedules; integrating teams and vendors into project strategy; communicating progress status; ensuring delivery of proper functionality; and managing communications from vendors to internal stakeholders. Manages multiple, highly complex eCommerce projects (for example, software development, infrastructure) with external stakeholders (for example, third-party vendors, Information System Division (ISD), Store Innovations) by driving projects through the lifecycle phases to successful completion as defined in project's charter; serving as the project team lead (for example, scrum master); managing project budget; developing and maintaining a project schedule to track milestones; developing and executing plans for managing risk; providing updates and communicating needed changes to project budget; escalating project-related issues to management in according to project guidelines and requirements; providing project status reports to stakeholders and management; managing project change control processes; coordinating production issue resolution; interpreting data to help guide teams towards issue resolution and risk management; and making recommendations regarding solutions to problems or issues.

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of experience in technical project management or related experience; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in technical project management or related experience; OR 7 years of experience in technical project management or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Leading a project through initiation, planning execution, monitoring, controlling and completion through Technical Project Management skills; Managing the Software development Project using Agile Methodology; Developing workflow pattern for implementing agile practice using Scaled Agile Framework; Software Development using Test Driven Development; Software Development using Behavior Driven Development; Software Development using Feature Driven Development; Team Centric Product Development especially software development using Scrum Methodology; Agile and DevOps Software Development using Kanban Methodology; Work Management for software team using Jira tool; Identification of greater consistency in task and activities that are involved in the production of products and services using Quality Management; and Identification, assessment and controlling of threats in software development using Risk Management. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.