Position Summary... What youll do... About Team

GDF sits at the core of Walmarts AI Data organization, building the foundational data platforms that make it possible for every team at Walmart - technical or non-technical - to build with trustworthy, well-governed, discoverable data. Our platforms serve billions of transactions and interactions across 19 countries, powering everything from supply chain intelligence to customer-facing personalization to enterprise AI agents. This particular team is newly formed to solve one of GDFs next big platform bets - which means youll be shaping charter, operating model, and delivery cadence essentially from a blank page, not inheriting someone elses playbook.

What Youll Do

- Serve as the founding TPM for a newly created platform team - standing up program structure, delivery cadence, and governance where none previously existed.
- Manage large, cross-cutting software/platform development programs end-to-end, partnering closely with architects and engineering leaders on architectural decision-making.
- Define goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and key deliverables for programs spanning multiple workstreams, dependencies, timelines, and resource constraints.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across GDF, AI Data, and downstream consuming teams - driving alignment on roles, responsibilities, and delivery cadences.
- Establish a resource capacity allocation process and tooling to bring planning rigor to a fast-moving, newly formed org.
- Drive effective engineering resource utilization; simplify and clarify priorities into plans with milestones suitable for advance planning and executive buy-in.
- Identify and champion AI-augmented program management practices - e.g., using AI to auto-summarize status updates, flag at-risk milestones from ticket/PR signal, or generate stakeholder-ready reporting - and work with tooling/eng leads to actually implement them.
- Navigate setbacks and ambiguity with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills - this is a 0 1 team, so comfort operating without a fully paved path is essential.
- Represent the platform team in leadership/executive reviews, translating technical delivery status into business-relevant narrative.

What Youll Bring




- Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent; 15+ years of overall technical experience , including 10+ years in a Technical Program Management leadership role delivering software programs with aggressive schedules and significant business impact.
- Proven experience standing up new programs/teams from scratch - comfortable defining process, cadence, and governance rather than just operating within an existing one.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to effectively manage and motivate a team of technical program managers and engineers.
- Experience supporting and executing a large software/platform portfolio while collaborating with multiple business stakeholders.
- Solid grounding in system/platform design concepts, architecture, technical design, services, APIs, and data platform technologies (data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, governance frameworks).
- AI-forward program management skillset:
- Practical experience using GenAI tools (e.g., Copilot-style assistants, internal LLM platforms) to accelerate program artifacts - status reports, risk summaries, requirement drafts, meeting-notes-to-action-items.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted meeting intelligence (e.g., auto-transcription / summarization of Teams/Zoom calls) and using it to close the loop on decisions and action items faster.
- Working understanding of how AI/ML and agentic systems get built and deployed (MLOps basics, model lifecycle, data quality dependencies) - enough to program-manage platform work that directly enables AI use cases.
- Curiosity and judgment to identify where AI genuinely helps a program (signal, not noise) versus where its a distraction.

- Ability to build positive relationships with product managers, translating target personas and business needs into features/user stories engineers can act on.
- Robust sense of ownership and accountability, with a love for data and solving complex, ambiguous problems.




- Expertise in change risk management methodologies, project tracking tools, dashboards, and executive reporting.
- Excellent verbal and written communicator - equally adept communicating upward, outward, and downward.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with JIRA, JIRA Align, Big Picture, Airtable, or equivalent program tooling.

About Walmart Global Tech . .

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.

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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... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors 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... Primary Location... Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India `

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📌 Principal, Technical Program Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Walmart
📍 Bengaluru