NEW YORK — Walmart has hired a tech veteran whose resume includes stints at Amazon AMZN, +0.66% , Microsoft MSFT, +1.29% and Google for a newly elevated position of chief technology officer and chief development officer.

Suresh Kumar, who was most recently at Alphabet’s GOOGL, +0.95% Google as its vice president and general manager of display, video, app ads and analytics, will report directly to Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon.