Senior Manager, Technology Operations- Ecosystem Health & Tech Governance – Platform Stability (Last Mile Delivery)

Walmart

Actively hiring
Bentonville, AR Posted 25 days ago $90,000–$180,000 / year
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TL;DR

As the Sr. Manager of Tech Governance & Platform Change Management within Walmart’s Platform Stability organization, you will lead a team responsible for safeguarding the integrity of Spark Driver, an ecosystem where customers, associates, and gig-drivers interact across various systems and data layers. Your primary responsibilities include building a cross-system tech governance framework to manage risk and foster engineering trust, implementing early-warning systems, and supporting backend simplification initiatives. You will ensure release readiness through clear runbooks and monitoring plans while driving shared stability KPIs and educating teams on platform stability best practices. This role requires 7-10+ years of experience in technical program management or related fields, with expertise in DevOps/CI-CD workflows, change management, and DORA metrics. Strong leadership and cross-team collaboration skills are essential to address the complex challenges of maintaining a stable ecosystem at scale.

Skills

CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes AWS Terraform PostgreSQL API Governance Change Management Risk Modeling DORA Metrics Automation Monitoring Release Management Impact Mapping Cross-Team Collaboration Technical Program Management

What you'll do

  • Build and lead a cross-system tech governance framework to manage risk and build engineering trust.
  • Implement early-warning systems for hidden changes and enhance automated alerts for potential issues.
  • Support initiatives for backend simplification, API consolidation, and risk reduction.
  • Ensure release readiness through clear runbooks, impact mapping, and monitoring plans.
  • Drive shared stability KPIs, transparent reporting, and governance rituals to accelerate engineering velocity.

What we're looking for

  • 7-10+ years of experience in technical program management or platform operations in complex environments.
  • Deep knowledge of change management, risk modeling, DORA metrics, and API governance.
  • Strong leadership and cross-team collaboration skills for managing backend/API/service-layer changes.
  • Ability to implement early-warning systems and automated alerts for potential issues.
  • Experience with DevOps/CI-CD workflows and promoting platform stability thinking across teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $90,000–$180,000 range sits above 13% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$151,900–$232,500

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$163,425–$234,325

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Walmart

Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail

Walmart currently has 495 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $117,000–$234,000 across 487 roles with salary data.

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