Manager II, Technical Project Management

Position: Manager II, Technical Project Management 

Job Location: 702 SW 8th St, 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: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in technical program management or related experience; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of experience in technical program management or related experience. 

Skills required: Must have experience with: creating data analysis and data comparison reports on different data source systems using SQL/PL SQL; developing and implementing data quality rules and frameworks in tools like collibra; designing and developing data quality and KPI dashboards in front end tools like Tableau and Power BI; performing data assessment and data profiling using SQL or collibra to ensure that data is fit for purpose; maintaining the data quality metrics above a threshold by performing continuous issue management in collibra or Jira; creating and managing data dictionary, business glossary and data quality rule repository in collibra; designing and implementing Data Governance strategy using DAMA (Data Management Association) principles; establishing and implementing best practice processes (SOP) and policies across teams for master data management (MDM); creating Ad hoc reports on item master, customer master data and sales transaction data using query languages like SQL/PLSQL; analyzing the architecture of Data Structures of source systems and target systems and, based on the analysis, perform As-Is/To-be data mappings between the systems; developing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) strategy to perform data migration from different upstream source systems to target system for customer master data and item master data and transaction data; Agile environment; and ticketing tools like JIRA and ServiceNow. Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or experience with the required skills. 

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.