Senior, Data Analyst - Data Ventures

Job Summary 

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will take ownership of project delivery and responsibilities playing a prominent technical role to help build data centric insights and product features. You will work closely with product stakeholders and deliver outstanding business outcomes. Provide leadership with constant updates and align with directions and expectation.  

About the Team 

We are responsible for the development of Walmart’s strategic Data Ventures product line to revolutionize the retail industry. Harnessing the power of data science, we at Walmart Data Ventures build applications that empower brands to fuel smarter decision making with access to rich customer insights to better serve customers. Our team builds highly scalable, cloud-native platforms & applications with resiliency at its core. Our platform has very diverse capabilities - from highly optimized real time algorithms to integrations with data foundation systems. Our tech stack is Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Big Query, PowerBI, Tableau, Spark, React Native, React.js, Angular, .Net C# microservices, Kafka, Azure, CI/CD pipelines and much more. 

Must have the following to be considered: SQL, Python, R, Looker, PowerBI, SQL, NoSQL, Big Data and Cloud technologies like GCP BQ. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Translate complex business requirements into clear, concise data analysis plans and develop appropriate methodologies to address business needs. 

• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify insights and opportunities that drive business value, use data to propose solutions. 

• Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to business stakeholders through visualizations, presentations, and other storytelling methods. 

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the retail industry, including the knowledge of retail operations (sales, inventory, etc.), customer data and behavior, supply chain management, as well as e-commerce (website and app traffic analysis). 

• Partner with product managers, data scientists, data engineers, data stewards, as well as internal data source teams to ensure that data analysis work is properly scoped, planned, and executed. 

• Ensure the quality, governance, and standards of data by developing and implementing data management policies and procedures. 

• Understand business value and relevance of data and help build data enabled insights; Work on Strategy for data ecosystem including Data Management, Data Quality Standards and Data Governance, Accessibility, Storage and Scalability, etc. 

What You’ll Bring: 

• Passion for problem-solving, come with Analytical mindset with critical-thinking, and data skills. 

• Strong technical skills in SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages commonly used in data analysis.  

• Awareness of software engineering principles, ability to develop and deploy appropriate analytic code. 

• Well-versed experience in visualization tools and best practices like Looker, PowerBI etc. 

• Experience working with large datasets, finding insights, and telling stories using data.  

• Comprehensive knowledge in working with distributed datastores (e.g., SQL, NoSQL), and Big Data and Cloud technologies like GCP BQ. 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 

• (Strongly preferred) Prior experience working in the retail data sets 

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 that is primarily in the office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives. 

Benefits: 

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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. 

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.