Senior, Data Engineer, Data Strategist - Catalog Solutions

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Stock purchase program

Paid time off including holidays

Job summary

Walmart in Bentonville, AR seeks a Senior Data Engineer / Data Strategist to shape data quality and usability across item data, classifications, and supply chain signals. You will work across stakeholders to identify gaps and drive practical improvements through analysis and prototyping with engineering teams.

This hands-on role blends data, business context, and execution, translating findings into actions and prioritizing work to scale enhancements for downstream teams and real workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years in data engineering, analytics, data strategy, or related roles.
• Strong SQL and ability to work with complex data to validate logic.
• Experience translating business questions into structured analysis and recommendations.
• Experience collaborating across business, product, engineering, and analytics teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead how Catalog Solutions improves data quality and usability for business needs.
• Identify gaps, define improvements, and translate findings into actions.
• Prototype first, then scale enhancements with engineering and platform teams.
• Ensure outputs are usable across downstream teams and real workflows.
• Bring structure to cross-functional work where ownership is unclear.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics

Data strategy

SQL

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

ETL tools

Job description

Position Summary...This role works across Catalog Solutions and partner teams to identify where product data, supply chain signals, and classification outputs are not fit for business use, and to turn those gaps into practical improvements. It combines hands-on analysis with cross-functional problem solving, helping drive better data accessibility, usability, and readiness through existing tooling, analytics, and platform teams.

What you’ll do...About the Team Catalog Solutions sits between core item data and the business processes that depend on it across merchandising, supply chain, stores, compliance, and related areas. We work on the shared capabilities that make product-linked data, classifications, supply chain signals, and decision outputs more usable, consistent, and actionable across the company. The team focuses on how these inputs and outputs are shaped, improved, and applied in real workflows. We partner closely with business, product, engineering, and analytics teams to make sure the work is practical, scalable, and connected to how the business actually operates.

About the Role As Senior Data Engineer / Data Strategist, you will lead how Catalog Solutions improves the quality and usability of data and outputs the business depends on, including item-related data, classifications, supply chain signals, and decision outputs. This role sits in a strategy-oriented team, but it is hands‑on where it needs to be. You will work across stakeholders and partner teams to understand where the current state is falling short, define what needs to improve, and help move that work forward. Some of that will involve direct analysis and discovery. Some of it will involve rapid prototyping and building while working with engineering and platform teams to shape and scale enhancements. This is a strong fit for someone who is comfortable moving between data, business context, and execution — someone who can investigate issues, bring structure to ambiguity, and help turn findings into practical improvements.

What You’ll Do

• Identify where data, classifications, supply chain signals, or decision outputs are not meeting business needs.
• Work through source questions, logic questions, and usability gaps to clarify what should change.
• Use SQL and targeted analysis to investigate issues, validate assumptions, and support decision-making.
• Help translate findings into clear actions, priorities, and improvement plans.
• Prototype first, then partner with engineering, platform, and business teams to scale enhancements.
• Support efforts to make outputs more consistent, useful, and easier for downstream teams to rely on.
• Bring structure to cross-functional work where ownership, requirements, or next steps are not yet clear.

How Success Is Measured

• The business has greater confidence in the data and outputs it relies on.
• Important gaps are identified early and turned into practical improvements.
• Data and decision outputs become easier to use across real workflows.
• Cross‑functional efforts move more smoothly because issues are better defined, prioritized, and fixed efficiently.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Economics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years experience in data engineering, analytics, data strategy, or related roles.
• Strong SQL and comfort working directly with complex data to investigate issues and validate logic.
• Experience translating business questions into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.
• Experience working across business, product, engineering, and analytics teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in catalog, merchandising, supply chain, store operations, fulfillment, compliance, or similar operational domains.
• Experience improving data quality, consistency, or usability in a business-facing environment.
• Experience working in ambiguous spaces where requirements are not fully defined up front.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to connect detailed analysis to broader business needs.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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.

The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 1 year’s experience in software engineering or related field. 2 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud, Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location

601 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

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.