Position Summary...Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
What you'll do...
About Team:
Enterprise Business Services is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, Associate Digital Experience. Within EBS, we are part of Finance and our team processes the payment for suppliers of Walmart Warehouses who spread across United States and other 26 countries including South Africa, Argentina, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Japan, and Mexico. We ensure the timely and accurate payments by reconciling the supplier merchandise against the invoices presented for the items ordered.
What you'll do:
Startegic Leadership:
- Develop and lead the comprehensive Mainframe to Cloud migration strategy, aligning with the organization’s long-term business objectives and digital transformation goals.
- Collaborate with senior leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams to define the roadmap, milestones, and success metrics for the migration initiative.
- Assess existing mainframe systems and define the target architecture on the cloud, ensuring business continuity, security, and compliance with financial regulations.
Program Management:
- Lead the end-to-end program management of the Mainframe to Cloud migration, including planning, budgeting, risk management, and governance.
- Drive the execution of the migration program across multiple teams, ensuring timelines are met, and deliverables are of high quality.
- Ensure close coordination between application development, infrastructure, security, and business teams for seamless migration with minimal disruption to the business.
- Manage vendor relationships and contracts associated with cloud services, migration tools, and other third-party technologies.
Team Collaboration:
- Build, lead, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, architects, and business analysts throughout the migration process.
- Foster a collaborative, agile working environment to encourage innovation and problem-solving, ensuring team alignment with program objectives.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for key internal and external stakeholders, ensuring transparent communication and timely updates.
Risk and Compliance Management:
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to address migration challenges such as data security, system performance, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure adherence to finance industry regulations, data privacy laws, and internal risk management frameworks.
- Oversee the testing and validation of migrated systems, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and alignment with the company’s financial reporting standards.
Change Management & Stakeholder Management:
- Lead change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of the new cloud platform by business and technical teams.
- Present regular updates to executive leadership, including status reports, progress against milestones, risks, and financial implications of the migration.
- Educate and empower the organization’s staff on cloud-based technologies, tools, and best practices.
What you'll bring:
Experience:
- 15+ years of progressive experience in IT Program Management, with at least 5 years leading Mainframe to Cloud or similar large-scale modernization initiatives.
- Familiarity of mainframe technologies (IBM z/OS, COBOL, CICS) and cloud platforms ( Azure, Google Cloud).
- Proven experience in the financial services industry, with an understanding of financial systems, accounting, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar IT programs with complex technology ecosystems and multiple vendor partners.
Skills:
- Expertise in cloud migration frameworks, tools, and methodologies, including rehosting, refactoring, and replatforming strategies.
- Familiarity of cloud architectures, microservices, containers, and DevOps practices.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Solid understanding of agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
- Strong risk management, budgeting, and financial acumen.
Certifications (Preferred):
- PMP, PgMP, or similar program management certification.
- Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Administrator, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect).
- ITIL, Six Sigma, or other relevant process improvement certifications.
About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 7 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area. Option 2: 9 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.
Primary Location...Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
Top Skills
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
