Data Scientist III

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team:

This is the team which builds reusable technologies that aid in acquiring customers, onboarding and empowering merchants besides ensuring a seamless experience for both these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment, adhering to the Walmart philosophy - Everyday Low Cost. In addition to ushering in affordability, we also create personalized experiences for customers the omnichannel way, across all channels - in-store, on the mobile app and websites. Marketplace is the gateway to domestic and international Third-Party sellers; we enable them to manage their end-to-end onboarding, catalog management, order fulfilment, return & refund management. Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of large-scale distributed systems by leveraging cutting-edge technologies in web/mobile, cloud, big data & AI/ML. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.

What you'll do:

As a Data Scientist for Walmart , you’ll have the opportunity to

• Drive data-derived insights across the wide range of retail divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives

• Direct the gathering of data, assessing data validity and synthesizing data into large analytics datasets to support project goals

• Utilize big data analytics and advanced data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights

• Build and train statistical models and machine learning algorithms for replication for future projects

• Communicate recommendations to business partners and influencing future plans based on insights

What you'll bring:

• Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics

• Experience in Analyzing the Complex Problems and translate it into data science algorithms

• Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised and deep learning.

  • Hands on experience in Computer Visions and NLP.

• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data                                                                                                                             

• Strong Experience in Python with excellent knowledge of Data Structures

• Strong Experience with big data platforms – Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala, Spark) 

• Hands on experience with Git

• Experience with SQL and relational databases, data warehouse

• Qualifications

  • Bachelors with > 5 years of experience / Master’s degree with > 3 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or a related area. Experience should be relevant to the role.

• Good to have:

  • Experience in ecommerce domain.

  • Experience in R and Julia

  • Demonstrated success in data science platforms like Kaggle.

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. 

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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