(IND) Data Scientist III

Position Summary...

Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

What you'll do...

About Team: 
 

Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivalled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centres, tire and battery centres, and a portfolio of business operations support services.

You will work in a team of talented data scientists to build robust, distributed and scalable applications solving interesting Supply Chain problems.

What you'll do:

As a Data scientist, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Apply and/or develop ML solutions to develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.
• Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart’s business and drive actionable insights from terabytes of data.
• Leverage data science tools and techniques, keeping abreast with the latest in the community to solve problems for Walmart.
• Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering, and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.
• Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future.
• Develop PoC, present lucidly to the business and evolve the solutions.
• Take forward the solutions into Pipelines/APIs as needed by the business.
• Research, learn/disseminate & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve upon existing solutions.
• Adopt Wal-Mart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry.
• Stay up to date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning research.
• Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.
• Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's/ Masters with 4+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or any other relevant field.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills.
• Good Python development experience with big data.
• Experience in analysing complex problems and translating them to data science. algorithms with due attention to computational efficiency and testing at scale.
• Expertise in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised along with Time Series.
• Basic knowledge on Optimization.
• Experience working with big data - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data.
• Experience with SQL, relational databases and data warehouse.
• Experience in ML Ops .
• Experience with multiple stakeholder management, data based story-telling and multiple project handling at the same time.

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 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:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

 

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 2 years' experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 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...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India