Senior Data Scientist

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:

Our People.AI strategy aims to empower our People business and associates by converting our people data, business processes and the knowledge and experience of our HR subject matter experts into search experiences, recommendations, outlier alerts and talent segmentations. People.AI is building a GenAI powered platform with multitude of services that will unlock the potential of Walmart’s products and to increase productivity and boost associate satisfaction. This platform will democratize information access in a seamless fashion, allowing our customers to make better decisions quicker. All of this will be done in a federated and data protected approach for internal use, which means that users can query using internal and personal data without worry that they will be exposing proprietary or personal information to an outside party. A core capability of these services will be a unified and extensible ML inferencing platform, model management, and ML-Ops, to accelerate time-to-market and maintain quality of service. You will have numerous opportunities to collaborate with Senior data scientists to design, architect, and build AI/ML model and model systems, Machine learning engineers to deploy, operate, and optimize scalable solutions & Product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyse user telemetry.

What you'll do:

A Data scientist shall play a lead technical role in building data science solutions working with product managers and business stakeholders to deliver outstanding business outcomes for problems across Walmart.

• Own a business problem and deliver end-to-end solution by applying advanced Machine Learning algorithms and complex statistical models on large volumes of data.
• Utilize product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping
• Demonstrate incremental solution approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems
• Partner with senior team members to assess customer needs and define business questions
• Participate in internal technical councils and represent the organization in forums that involve community of data scientists across industry and academia.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Communicate complex models, analysis and recommendations in a clear and precise manner to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Conduct data storytelling to stakeholders through rich visualization and presentation.
• Follow industry best practices, stay up to date with and extend the state of the art in machine learning research and practice, drive innovation by contributing towards publications and patents.
• Effectively coach junior data scientists to work through ambiguous issues, integrate input from stakeholders across the company
• Able to help execute our Fair AI/ML practice in collaboration with stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Able to craft actionable and measurable approaches that will ensure fulfilment of Walmart’s digital commitment and build trust with customers, suppliers, and associates.
• Knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics and has made core contributions to the area in practice.
• Strong understanding of Linear Algebra and Probability Theory fundamentals
• Extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g., Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g., Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Ability to work in a big data ecosystem - expert in SQL/Hive and ability to work with Spark.
• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data
• Able to communicate internally and externally through publication, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.
• Experience playing the role of full-stack data scientist and taking solutions to production.

What you'll bring:

• Should posses an overall experience of 6 to 10 Years.
• Hands on experience in Data Science, Cloud, Big Data Skills, Python
• Strong understanding of Linear Algebra and Probability Theory fundamentals
• Extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g., Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g., Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Ability to work in a big data ecosystem - expert in SQL/Hive and ability to work with Spark.
• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data
• Able to communicate internally and externally through publication, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.
• Experience playing the role of full-stack data scientist and taking solutions to production.
• Good to have experience in People/HR system, graph models or recommendation systems
• Experience in developing ML solutions in Work-Tech companies.
• Data science publications in recognized platforms/journals
• Proven ability to work in agile mode on data science sprint projects
• Education/Qualification: Experience should be relevant to the role. Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or in a related area

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.

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- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 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...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India