Principal, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role: Principal, Data Scientist
Location: Chennai
Experience: 12 to 20 years

About team:

Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates. At People Tech, we help, support and empower the HR department with technology and solutions to improving productivity, harnessing the opportunities for growth, focusing on well-being and cultivating cultures of belonging to all Walmart's associates. 

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Data Scientist directly reporting to the VP and org head at IDC. As a Principal Data Scientist specializing in GenAI and Agentic AI, you will lead the development and deployment of AI/ML models for associate facing systems & technologies; work with a team of Data scientists and engineers, and collaborate with product leaders to drive innovation. Your role will also involve overseeing project lifecycles, ensuring compliance with standards, and enhancing Walmart's reputation through research and partnerships.

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.  As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

What you will do:

• As a Principal Data Scientist with specialization in GenAI and Agentic AI, your role will be pivotal in working with the Engineering and DS teams to formulation of strategies and roadmaps for the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML, NLP, and GenAI models, ensuring their seamless transition into production environments and guaranteeing their reliability and scalability.
• You should be working on cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) by leveraging Walmart's vast datasets and working with a team of Data scientists and engineers in solving intricate AI/ML challenges through research and development, pushing the limits of innovation and making groundbreaking contributions to the field.
• Overseeing the entire lifecycle of projects, from inception and data collection to model prototyping and deployment, while effectively managing stakeholder relationships and facilitating cross-functional communication.
• Collaborating extensively with product and engineering leaders to accelerate innovations in discovery experiences, utilizing insights, frameworks, machine learning prototypes, and emphasizing the strategic importance of AI initiatives.
• Adhering strictly to Walmart’s policies, procedures, mission, values, standards of ethics, and integrity.Designing end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML and data-intensive applications, setting new benchmarks in the industry.
• Developing and deploying robust, production-grade real-time/batch machine learning services that set industry benchmarks.
• Collaborating with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loops and analyze user telemetry, thus creating seamless user experiences.
• Identifying or proposing innovative AI/ML use-cases to business teams to boost business processes and developing quick MVPs/POCs to enable stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.

What you'll bring :

• GenAI: understanding of usecases in developing and implementing AI models and algorithms.
• Python: Knowledge of Python, including libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.
• Apache Spark: Experience with big data processing frameworks like Apache Spark.
• Scala: Knowledge of Scala for data processing and analysis.
• Machine Learning: Expertise in machine learning techniques and frameworks such as TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch.
• Data Science: Strong foundation in data science principles, including statistical analysis, data visualization, and data manipulation.
• Algorithms: Ability to design and implement efficient algorithms for data processing and analysis.
• Engineering: Experience in software engineering practices, including version control, testing, and deployment.

About Walmart Global Tech

From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth, and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmart's scale enables us to have an. No other company has the reach of Walmart, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

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...

Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India