Software Engineer III - Data

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Want to be part of a new team that is being stood up now, and be a founding member to set the strategy, culture, technology and working norms. It's a unique chance to be an intrapreneur building something new from the ground up, while backed by the strength of Walmart and leveraging the assets of the world's largest omnichannel retailer. To fulfill the charter of this new business initiative, there is a need for top-notch talent with expertise in Big Data and Distributed Systems. You would be working on challenging problems in terms of enhancing big data platforms to support data science initiatives. All the problems will require building solutions at the Walmart scale. The best part is that your solutions will generate tangible and immediate business impact.

There is a vibrant infrastructure community in Walmart Global Tech which provides great learning and collaboration opportunities.

About Team:
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.

What you'll do:

Developing Data Strategy: Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function.

Scaling Systems: Build large scale systems to process customer data. Enable data scientists to run its model in batch and real-time. Continuous collaboration to scale the systems to support model inferencing.

Curiosity & Courage: Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Customer Focus: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.

What you'll bring:

• Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of ELT flow, specifically experience with Airflow.
• Proficiency in SparkJob and big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, and experience with OOP languages like Python and Scala.
• Experience in operationalizing automated CI/CD pipelines.
• A good understanding of data architecture, including DB schema, data scaling, and designing data pipelines.

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.

Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed.  We use our campuses to create purposeful conne