Senior Data Engineer — Scalable Pipelines & Governance

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); 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 and health plans

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures that support business insights and decision-making.

This role emphasizes data integration, modeling, governance, and collaboration across functions to deliver high-quality data solutions that empower analytics across Walmart’s global teams. Strong SQL, Airflow, and cloud platform experience are required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 5+ years in data engineering.
• Proficiency in SQL and cloud data platforms (Snowflake/Azure/BigQuery).
• Strong data governance, quality standards, and regulatory compliance knowledge.
• Experience designing scalable data architectures and managing workflows with Airflow.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into data solutions.
• Experience with ETL and handling structured and semi-structured data.
• Ability to collaborate across business domains to align data strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures.
• Extract, transform, and load data from internal and external sources.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into data solutions.
• Implement data modeling, governance, and quality standards.
• Develop and optimize SQL and other code for data integration and analysis.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data workflows in cloud/big data environments.

Skills

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Data architecture design

Apache Airflow

ETL

Cross-domain collaboration

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Google BigQuery

Apache Airflow

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures that support business insights and decision-making.

This role emphasizes data integration, modeling, governance, and collaboration across functions to deliver high-quality data solutions that empower analytics across Walmart’s global teams. Strong SQL, Airflow, and cloud platform experience are required.