Staff Data Engineer — Scalable Pipelines & Governance

Walmart; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 121,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) + stock purchase

PTO and paid time off

Live Better U education benefits

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Staff Data Engineer in Denver to design scalable data architectures, build robust pipelines, and govern data quality for enterprise analytics. You will partner with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions across data lakes and distributed stores, ensuring secure, compliant data operations.

The role emphasizes cloud data environments, industry best practices, and ongoing innovation to optimize data delivery and insights across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 4 years’ software engineering or related field.
• 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related field.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science with 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related field.
• 3 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures to support business analytics and reporting needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective data solutions.
• Implement data governance practices ensuring compliance with regulatory and ethical standards.
• Design and optimize data models for data lakes and distributed data stores.
• Automate data integration and transformation processes using modern tools and orchestration frameworks.
• Monitor data quality and provide guidance to ensure accuracy and reliability of data assets.
• Support continuous improvement by evaluating emerging data technologies and methodologies.

Skills

Data engineering pipelines

Data modeling

Data lakes

Distributed data stores

PySpark

Databricks

Apache Airflow

CI/CD pipelines

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Databricks

Apache Airflow

PySpark

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Staff Data Engineer in Denver to design scalable data architectures, build robust pipelines, and govern data quality for enterprise analytics. You will partner with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions across data lakes and distributed stores, ensuring secure, compliant data operations.

The role emphasizes cloud data environments, industry best practices, and ongoing innovation to optimize data delivery and insights across the