Principal, Data Scientist

Wal-Mart Stores Texas, LL

Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid

USD 144,000 - 220,000

Full time

3 days ago
Be an early applicant

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits
401(k) matching
Stock purchase plan
Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart Inc. in Bentonville, AR is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead analytics initiatives across business domains. You will formulate problems, design data-driven solutions, and quantify impact using state‑of‑the‑art ML techniques and big data stacks.

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive measurable business outcomes. The role requires advanced modeling skills, cloud experience (GCP/Azure), and leadership to mentor junior staff while engaging with the external data science

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field plus 3 years of experience in analytics or related experience; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field plus 5 years of experience in analytics or related experience.

Responsibilities

  • Tech. Problem Formulation: Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods; Business understanding; Precedence and use cases; Business requirements and insights.
  • To analyze the business problem within one's discipline and questions assumptions to help the business identify the root cause.
  • Identify and recommend approach to resolve the business problem to create effective technology focused solutions.
  • Set relevant deliverables based on the established success criteria and define key metrics to measure progress and effectiveness of the solution.
  • Quantify business impact.
  • Industry and environmental factors; Common business vernacular; Business practices across two or more domains such as product, finance, marketing, sales, technology, business systems, and human resources and in-depth knowledge of related practices; Directly relevant business metrics and business areas.
  • To evaluate proposed business cases for projects and initiatives.
  • Translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects and aligns them to business strategy and objectives, and drives the execution of deliverables.
  • Build and articulate the business case and return on investment and delivers work that has demonstrable value.
  • Challenge business assumptions on topics related to one's domain expertise.
  • Mentor the team members on new business insights and allied developments.
  • Proactively engage in the external community to build Walmart's brand and learn more about industry practices.
  • Define and identify the most suitable sources for required data that is fit for purpose, referring to external sources as required.
  • Perform initial data quality checks on the extracted data.
  • Review the deliverables of junior associates and provides guidance on data source and quality.
  • To select appropriate modeling techniques for complex problems with large scale, multiple structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Select and develop variables and features iteratively based on model responses in collaboration with the business.
  • Conducts exploratory data analysis activities on available data.
  • Identify dimensions and designs of experiments and create test and learn frameworks.
  • Interpret data to identify trends to go across future data sets.
  • Create continuous, online model learning along with iterative model enhancements.
  • Develop newer techniques by leveraging the latest trends in machine learning, artificial intelligence to train algorithms to apply models to new data sets.

Skills

Python
C++
R
ML
Big Data
Cloud
SQL
Tableau
PowerBI
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
Gensim
BERT
DeepAR
Spark
Hadoop
BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks

Education

Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Tools

Google Cloud
Azure
Python
C++
R
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
Gensim
NLU/NLP tools

Job description

This notice is being provided as a result of the filing of an Application for Permanent Alien Labor Certification. Any person may provide documentary evidence bearing on the application to the Certifying Officer of the Department of Labor: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N-5311, Washington, DC 20210

What you'll do...

Position: Principal, Data Scientist

Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties

Tech. Problem Formulation: Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods; Business understanding; Precedence and use cases; Business requirements and insights.

To analyze the business problem within one's discipline and questions assumptions to help the business identify the root cause.

Identify and recommend approach to resolve the business problem to create effective technology focused solutions.

Set relevant deliverables based on the established success criteria and define key metrics to measure progress and effectiveness of the solution.

Quantify business impact.

Understanding Business Context

Industry and environmental factors; Common business vernacular; Business practices across two or more domains such as product, finance, marketing, sales, technology, business systems, and human resources and in-depth knowledge of related practices; Directly relevant business metrics and business areas.

To evaluate proposed business cases for projects and initiatives.

Translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects and aligns them to business strategy and objectives, and drives the execution of deliverables.

Build and articulate the business case and return on investment and delivers work that has demonstrable value.

Challenge business assumptions on topics related to one's domain expertise.

Mentor the team members on new business insights and allied developments.

Proactively engage in the external community to build Walmart's brand and learn more about industry practices.

Data Source Identification

Functional business domain and scenarios; Categories of data and where it is held; Business data requirements; Database technologies and distributed datastores (e.g. SQL, NoSQL); Data Quality; Existing business systems and processes, including the key drivers and measures of success.

To understand the priority order of requirements and service level agreements.

Define and identify the most suitable sources for required data that is fit for purpose, referring to external sources as required.

Perform initial data quality checks on the extracted data.

Review the deliverables of junior associates and provides guidance on data source and quality.

Analytical Modeling

feature relevance and selection; Exploratory data analysis methods and techniques; Advanced statistical methods and best-practice advanced modelling techniques (e.g., graphical models, Bayesian inference, basic level of NLP, Vision, neural networks, SVM, Random Forest etc.); Multivariate calculus; Statistical models behind standard ML models; Advanced excel techniques and Programming languages like R/Python; Basic classical optimization techniques (e.g., Newton-Rapson methods, Gradient descent); Numerical methods of optimization (e.g. Linear Programming, Integer Programming, Quadratic Programming, etc.)

To select appropriate modeling techniques for complex problems with large scale, multiple structured and unstructured data sets. Select and develop variables and features iteratively based on model responses in collaboration with the business.

Conducts exploratory data analysis activities on available data.

Identify dimensions and designs of experiments and create test and learn frameworks.

Interpret data to identify trends to go across future data sets.

Create continuous, online model learning along with iterative model enhancements.

Develop newer techniques by leveraging the latest trends in machine learning, artificial intelligence to train algorithms to apply models to new data sets.

Minimum education and experience required

Master’s degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field plus 3 years of experience in analytics or related experience; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field plus 5 years of experience in analytics or related experience.

Skills Required

Must have experience with:

Implement data science solutions on Cloud environments :Google Cloud, Azure;

Coding in object‑oriented language :Python, C++;

Use statistical software :R;

Use ML and Deep learning frameworks :Scikitlearn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras;

Computer Vision:ResNet50,fast.ai for image segmentation and object detection;

Big Data technologies :BigQuery, Spark, Hive, Hadoop for Data Integration: Databricks, Snowflake, Collibra;

Feature engineering, extraction, reduction techniques using Python, R;

Exploratory data analysis with data warehouses via database querying language :SQL, setting up ETL jobs with Glue, Knime, Alteryx, Data Visualization using Python, Tableau, PowerBI, Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot, Spotfire for insights to stakeholders;

Implement supervised and unsupervised ML techniques: K‑means clustering,Principal Component Analysis,Hierarchical Clustering,ARIMA,Hierarchical linear modeling and Gradient Boosting on Python,R, operational research solutions with optimization libraries (PuLP,CPlex), optimization and neural nets,natural language processing with gensim,BERT, deploy time series forecasting solutions with ML techniques like DeepAR on Python and R;

Identify model evaluation metrics and apply best techniques for model testing and tuning to assess accuracy, fit, validity, robustness using advanced statistics;

Translate business problems into production grade scalable data science solutions with; MLflow,Docker,Kubernetes implementation generating actionable insights.

Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Rate of pay

Rate of pay: $144,040.00 - 220,000.00/year.

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.

Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance.

Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.

Other benefits include short‑term and long‑term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.

Wal‑Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Pay Rate...

$0.00 Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

Company History

Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom‑and‑pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and create a career you're proud of.

Get your free, confidential resume review.

or drag and drop your file here.

Similar jobs

Similar jobs worth comparing

Senior Data Analyst
Senior Data Analyst

Walmart Inc. • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 110,000 - 155,000
Health benefits
401(k) plan
Stock purchase program
+4
Data Engineer III
Data Engineer III

Walmart Inc. • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 110,000 - 180,000
Health benefits
401(k) plan
Stock purchase program
+1
Staff Data Engineer
Staff Data Engineer

Walmart Inc. • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 127,000 - 220,000
Health benefits
401(k)
Stock purchase
+4
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist

Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC • Hoboken (NJ)

On-site
USD 116,000 - 216,000
Health benefits
401(k) and stock purchase
Paid time off
+2
Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer

Wal-Mart Stores East, LP • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 129,000 - 220,000
Health benefits
Paid time off
401(k) & stock options
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist

Sam's West, Inc. • San Bruno (CA)

Hybrid
USD 142,000 - 234,000
Health benefits
Vision and dental coverage
401(k) & stock purchase program
+2
Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics
Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart Inc. • San Bruno (CA)

Hybrid
USD 175,000 - 234,000
Health benefits
401(k) plan
Stock purchase program
+4
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist

Wal-Mart Stores Texas, LL • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 90,000 - 180,000
Health benefits
401(k) plan
Stock purchase plan
+5
Senior Data Scientist – Supply Chain Optimization
Senior Data Scientist – Supply Chain Optimization

Walmart Inc. • Bentonville (AR)

Hybrid
USD 110,000 - 180,000
Health benefits
401(k) and stock purchase
Paid time off
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist

Sam's West, Inc. • Sunnyvale (CA)

Hybrid
USD 169,000 - 234,000
Health benefits
401(k) and stock purchase programs
PTO & parental leave
+1