(IND) PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Supply Chain Technology (SCT) Data Science team at Walmart is focused on using the latest research in Machine learning, Operations Research and Computer Vision to solve business problems in supply chain process flow. We leverage ranking and classification algorithms, operations research (MILP) and computer vision to improve various operational aspects within Supply Chain. Advanced analytical algorithms driven by our team help Walmart to optimize supply chain operations, business practices, reduce cost and pass those benefits to our customers.

 You will be contributing towards building solutions to improve the efficiency of the Supply Chain Operations. You will have to collaborate with team of data scientists & business stake holders, with a common vision towards developing Supply Chain of tomorrow.

What you'll do:

As a Principal Data Scientists at Walmart , you’ll have the opportunity to

• Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart’s business and drive actionable insights from petabytes of data

• Solve problems using world class algorithms, by researching and implementing these to production using best practices to handle scale and latency requirements

• Develop/Review the production level code for implementation of Machine Learning, Optimization and Vision algorithms

• Research, learn & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve existing solutions

• Partner with team and stake holders to assess customer needs and define business questions

• Adopt Wal-Mart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry

What you'll bring:

• Master's with > 12 years OR Ph.D. with > 10 years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be in Engineering / Data sciences

• Problem solver at heart with experience in Machine learning, Optimization, Operations Research and Computer/Deep Vision

• Proficiency with Python/PySpark/BiqQuery etc

• Proficiency with ML libraries sklearn/pytorch/tensorflow etc

• Cloud friendliness (GCP/Azure etc) to leverage distributed computing/ scalability

• Good communication/influencing/mentoring skills with inclination to high ownership and commitment

Additional Qualifications:

PhD oriented towards Data Science or Artificial Intelligence can be a plus

 

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.

 

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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.

 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India