(USA) Senior, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

Join Walmart|VIZIO and take your career to the next level!

We are looking for a highly talented and motivated Data Scientist to help deliver strategic initiatives across the organization. We look for people who can effectively partner with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to deliver easy, effective, and insightful analytics. We are a growing team, focusing on challenging problems that make a difference to our business. We concentrate on high-impact, high-value development, and analysis. We are looking for someone who is versatile, methodical, excited by modern technology and enjoys focusing on tackling software challenges.

What you'll do...

Tech.

Problem Formulation: Requires knowledge of Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods; Business understanding; Precedence and use cases; Business requirements and insights. To translate/ co-own business problems within one's discipline to data related or mathematical solutions. Identify appropriate methods/tools to be leveraged to provide a solution for the problem.

Share use cases and gives examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem.

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.

Understanding Business Context:

Requires knowledge of: Industry and environmental factors; Common business vernacular; Business practices across two or more domains such as product, finance, marketing, sales, technology, business systems, and human resources and in-depth knowledge of related practices; Directly relevant business metrics and business areas. To Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues.

Develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings.

Translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and aligns to overall business strategy and develops domain specific artifact. Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results.

Identify and recommend relevant business insights pertaining to their area of work.

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.

Data Source Identification:

Requires knowledge of Functional business domain and scenarios; Categories of data and where it is held; Business data requirements; Database technologies and distributed datastores (e.g. SQL, NoSQL); Data Quality; Existing business systems and processes, including the key drivers and measures of success. To support the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements.

Help identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose.

Perform initial data quality checks on extracted data.

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.

Analytical Mo