Senior, Data Analyst | One Demand Science Team | Sunnyvale

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our team and help develop sophisticated forecasting models. This model plays a vital role in efficiently distributing items across our by considering various inputs. At Walmart Global Tech, we are leading the way in revolutionizing retail through advanced technology and data science. Our team of experts is committed to solving current supply chain challenges and conducting research and development to create models that address the future requirements of our complex omni-channel international business.

About Team: OneDemand Science Team
At Walmart, we recognize the vital importance of establishing a robust technology foundation to support our infrastructure and platforms. Our team is dedicated to building and maintaining the foundational technologies that underpin our tech organization, including data platforms, forecasting, inventory placement, and safety stock calculation. By doing so, we ensure that all our tech products and services are underpinned by scalable and powerful infrastructure, resulting in a seamless customer experience across our stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.

What you'll do:

• Translate complex business requirements into clear, concise data analysis plans and develop appropriate methodologies to address business needs. 

• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify insights and opportunities that drive business value, use data to propose solutions. 

• Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to business stakeholders through visualizations, presentations, and other storytelling methods. 

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the retail industry, including the knowledge of retail operations (sales, inventory, etc.), customer data and behavior, supply chain management, as well as e-commerce (website and app traffic analysis). 

• Partner with product managers, data scientists, data engineers, data stewards, as well as internal data source teams to ensure that data analysis work is properly scoped, planned, and executed. 

• Ensure the quality, governance, and standards of data by developing and implementing data management policies and procedures. 

• Understand business value and relevance of data and help build data enabled insights; Work on Strategy for data ecosystem including Data Management, Data Quality Standards and Data Governance, Accessibility, Storage and Scalability, etc. 

What you'll bring:

• 4+ years of professional experience in analytics, preferably in retail

• Passion and curiosity for problem-solving, come with Analytical mindset with critical-thinking, and data skills. 

• Strong technical skills in SQL and Python

• Familiar with machine learning and data science tools and methodologies, such as regression, xgboost, random forest, and neural network. 

• Awareness of software engineering principles, ability to develop and deploy appropriate analytic code. 

• Experience working with large datasets, finding insights, and telling stories using data.  

• Comprehensive knowledge in working with distributed data stores (e.g., SQL, NoSQL), and Big Data and Cloud technologies like GCP BQ. 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeho