Distinguished, Risk Expert

Role summary

As the Business Information Security Partner (BISP), your core responsibility will be to enhance the delivery of secure technology to our customers. This role, reporting to the Information Security Partners organization, will function as the key bridge between organizations and strategic partners to predict future needs of an aligned line of business and accelerate secure delivery.

At Walmart, the Risk Expert team is committed to safeguarding our digital environment by integrating advanced cyber risk management, vulnerability assessments, and security testing. The team collaborates across functions to prevent threats, secure cloud transformations, and uphold governance and compliance standards. Focused on maintaining trust and operational resilience, members apply expertise in risk analysis and mitigation strategies to protect organizational assets.

This team fosters a culture of reliability and continuous improvement, ensuring that security measures evolve with emerging challenges while supporting Walmart’s mission to deliver safe and dependable services to customers and stakeholders.

• Key leader for all things information security within a core technology team.
• Establish and embed security into engineering using automation and scalable security practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Partner and collaborate across other operations leaders in educating and initiating actions to mature the security posture for the teams.
• Determine where opportunities exist for the technology teams, then further define and roadmap the maturity journey to raise the security posture expectation.
• Understand key business goals to reframe risk discussions and resulting decisions in business terms.
• Inform senior business leaders and partners and product teams on the long‑term risk implications of product options using both data and expert experience to guide decision making.
• Predict demand increases both in existing operations and for new yet to be offered services from Information Security.
• Keep awareness and aid Info Sec teams to maintain priority for all work for your supported area to be aligned to the business needs.
• Translate business needs into product requirements for feeding backlogs of horizontal offerings by Information Security.
• Serve as a primary arbiter for risk management between business needs and security risk, aligned with quantitative risk measurement standards.
• Function as the primary escalation point for incidents involving your supported area and Information Security, including attending war rooms when notified and following up on problems involving Information Security services.
• Participate in industry councils or working groups to influence security best practices within the retail industry.
• Constructively engage teams, including business teams, to resolve cybersecurity issues.
• Establish risk ownership and accountability.
• Monitor open security risk issues to ensure strategic planning identifies and avoids such risks in the future.

• Manages the execution of security initiatives by prioritizing critical issues for root‑cause analysis; ensuring resolution of critical issues; monitoring progress versus plan; escalating complex or difficult issues; conducting business and technical design sessions; utilizing scope‑change orders to track changes to the project; tracking expenditures and budgets; providing informational presentations; managing stakeholder expectations; holding self and project team accountable for project delivery;
  
  and developing performance reports.
• Monitors, analyzes, and remediates information technology (IT) security risks and vulnerabilities by adhering to defined operating procedures; reviewing metrics to identify outliers, inefficiencies, and non‑standard actions associated with operational processes and reporting the findings; identifying improvement opportunities and providing feedback to senior team members and management; and participating in meetings for any initiatives or tasks that will alter current processes.
• Maintains vendor relations by preparing and executing requests for proposals (RFPs); facilitating the…