(USA) Senior, Data Analyst

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Live Better U education benefit

401(k) and stock purchase

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Senior Data Analyst in Bentonville, AR, focused on operations and technology to strengthen operational master data and governing processes. You will work with frontline operators, translate insights for nontechnical stakeholders, and drive changes to systems and data without relying on authority.

This role emphasizes business-facing analytics, critical thinking, and change leadership to support continuous improvement in transportation operations and master data governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a business/analytics field plus data analysis experience.
• Experience with master data governance and operational data management.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts for nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with transportation operators to understand how work is performed.
• Investigate ambiguous problems and drive them to resolution.
• Assess and improve operational master data, configurations, and governance processes.
• Translate technical concepts into nontechnical language for frontline staff.
• Lead change management efforts and guide teams through data/system changes.
• Use data analysis to validate hypotheses and monitor impact of changes.
• Conduct strategic reviews to identify opportunities for operational improvement.

Skills

Ambiguity handling

Stakeholder mgmt

Change leadership

Critical thinking

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Master data governance

Operations knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics

Master's degree

4 years data analysis experience

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Position Summary

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What you’ll do

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Role summary

As a Senior Data Analyst on this team, with a focus on operations and technology, you will use operational knowledge, systems, and change management skills to strengthen operational master data and the processes and governance that surround it. This is not primarily a software development or back-office analytics role — it is a business-facing, technically fluent change agent role. Success in this role requires spending significant time with operational stakeholders, understanding how work is actually performed, identifying root cause, and guiding teams through changes to systems, processes, and master data. You will frequently step into situations where the problem is not clearly defined and there is no established procedure to follow: you will investigate, form hypotheses, partner with frontline transportation operators, translate technical findings into plain language, and guide people through the changes needed to fix the issue. Data and system configuration are tools you will use to diagnose problems and inform decisions — your primary value comes from critical thinking, curiosity, and your ability to build trust and influence stakeholders, not from writing code.

About the team

The team is a change management team operating in a technical environment. We conduct strategic reviews of our transportation systems and operational unputs to find opportunities to improve the business through configuration changes and stronger governance processes. The work is process-oriented rather than strictly procedural — there often isn't a playbook, so team members are expected to investigate ambiguous problems, form hypotheses, and drive solutions independently. This is a highly customer-facing team: members regularly build relationships with operators who don't speak “technical,” translate complex concepts into operational language, and guide them through change. Success on this team requires high curiosity, managing stakeholder communications and relationships, strong initiative, and great critical thinking, balanced with enough technical fluency to understand how systems, data, and configurations support the operation.

What you’ll do

• Partner directly with transportation operators to understand how work is actually performed and identify the root cause of operational issues.
• Investigate ambiguous problems — where the issue, cause, and solution are not yet defined — and drive them to resolution.
• Assess and improve operational master data, system configurations, and governance processes that support day-to-day operations.
• Translate technical concepts and system behavior into language nontechnical, frontline stakeholders can understand and act on.
• Lead change management efforts, influencing stakeholders and guiding teams through changes to systems, processes, and data without relying on positional authority.
• Use data analysis and systems knowledge to validate hypotheses, monitor the impact of changes, and support decisions with evidence.
• Conduct strategic reviews of systems and processes to proactively identify opportunities for operational improvement.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity — investigating problems without a prescribed process or an obvious solution.
• Strong stakeholder relationship-building skills, including proven experience working directly with nontechnical, frontline, or operational teams.
• Proven ability to influence and drive change without relying on formal authority, and a history of identifying and solving problems no one asked you to solve.
• Strong critical thinking and root-cause problem-solving skills, with comfort investigating, hypothesizing, and adjusting course as new information emerges.
• Technical fluency with systems, data, and configuration (e.g., SQL, Tableau/Power BI, master data or ERP/TMS-type systems), applied in service of solving business problems rather than software development for its own sake.
• Background in transportation/logistics operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, business systems analysis, process or industrial engineering, or master data governance is highly valued; this role is a better fit for people who came to technology through operations than for candidates with primarily backend, procedural software engineering experience.

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 $80,000.00 - $155,000.00

Additional Compensation Includes Annual Or Quarterly Performance Bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

Option 3: 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce), Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)

Primary Location

805 Respect, 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.