Senior, Data Scientist | Marketplace

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

**Please note that Sponsorship is NOT available for this role.**

Walmart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with a strong educational background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. With at least 7+ years of industry experience (or 5+ years with a Masters degree, you'll bring extensive knowledge of machine learning and statistics to develop innovative AI products like Q;A assistants, Text to SQL analytics, and LLM reasoning, while applying causal learning and anomaly detection in the ecommerce domain

Team: Walmart Marketplace is a key part of e-commerce at Walmart. It is a gateway for Third-Party Sellers to manage their operations, such as onboarding, catalogs, order fulfillment, global opportunities, and return ; refund management. We are responsible for providing the best in-class marketplace experience for our sellers and customers through the design, development, and operations of highly scalable systems. We interact with multiple teams within the company to develop scalable, robust technical solutions. The data scientist role will be part of the data science team and will play a key role working along with others within the Marketplace engineering organization, product managers and business stakeholders to build Machine Learning products.

More about Marketplace: https://marketplace.walmart.com/

What you'll do:

As a Senior Data Scientist, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Supply Chain Data Science would be preferable.

• Hands on experience in Network optimization would be an added advantage

• Hands on experience in distributed computing framework like Spark is mandatory

What you'll bring:

• Bachelors with 7+ years of experience / Masters degree with 5+ years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or a related area. Experience should be relevant to the role.
• Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics
• Hands on experience building Gen AI products like Q;A assistants, Text to SQL analytics or LLM reasoning
• Experience in applying causal learning and anomaly detection in ecommerce domain.
• Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised and deep learning.
• Experience in analyzing the complex problems and translate it into data science algorithms
• 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,