Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Governance

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 117,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Paid maternity and parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Walmart is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures that fuel business insights. You will work across teams to implement data integration, governance, and quality standards in cloud and big data environments, enabling analytics and data-driven decision making for Walmart Global Tech.

The role emphasizes translating business requirements into robust data solutions, optimizing SQL code, and ensuring data accessibility

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 5+ years in data engineering and pipelines.
• Strong SQL expertise and cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of data governance, quality standards, and compliance.
• Experience designing scalable data architectures and managing workflows with Airflow.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data solutions and analytics.
• Experience ETL, data transformation, and handling structured/semi-structured data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures.
• ETL and streaming data extraction, loading from internal/external sources.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.
• Implement governance and quality standards for data accuracy and access.
• Develop and optimize SQL and code to support data integration and analysis.
• Monitor data workflows for reliability and performance in cloud/big data environments.

Skills

Masters with 5+ years of experience

SQL

data governance

designing scalable data architectures

data integration

ETL processes

Education

Masters degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Google BigQuery

Apache Airflow

Job description

Walmart is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures that fuel business insights. You will work across teams to implement data integration, governance, and quality standards in cloud and big data environments, enabling analytics and data-driven decision making for Walmart Global Tech.

The role emphasizes translating business requirements into robust data solutions, optimizing SQL code, and ensuring data accessibility