(USA) Senior, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As part of the Customer Insights & Strategy team in the Marketing org at Walmart, the Senior Data Scientist of Market Intelligence helps drive organization’s understanding of competitive landscape to fuel market share growth. Our ideal candidate is a sharp, thoughtful, and collaborative problem solver, who enjoys uncovering key business drivers and challenges, and then building data science and analytics solutions to enable strategic decision making. You will have direct visibility with executives and drive our strategic initiatives to support the rapid growth of our omni-channel businesses.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights to measure performance against competition and inform business growth opportunities 

• Research, create and implement advanced statistical models and cutting-edge machine learning algorithms on fast-moving structured and unstructured data to support decision making 

• Have a very strong product mindset and proactively ideate, design, improve and automate relevant data products

• Lead projects and take ownership of whole lifecycle of projects. Including prototype model and data process code, communicate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Engineers, Finance, Merch, Ops, Marketing, etc.) to align progress and collaborate on integrations

• Communicate findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through clear and concise reports, visualizations and presentations to gain alignment and drive business actions 

• Guide and mentor junior data scientists on modeling process and algorithm and foster a collaborative and innovative work environment

Minimum Qualification

• BA/BS in Marketing, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics or related field with 3+ years of experience in data science, data analytics and/or decision science; or Master’s degree in relevant fields with 2+ years of experience

• Proven advanced modeling experience in leading data-driven projects from definition to execution, driving and influencing project roadmaps

• Deep expertise in writing and debugging complex SQL code and Python code

• Strong written, oral communication and presentation skills

You’ll Sweep Us Off Our Feet If

• You are able to analyze complex problems with critical thinking and innovative solutions; and also have exceptional analytic mindset with strong attention to details

• You have strong production level modeling experience with one programming language from end-to-end

• You have experience with full lifecycle of a real-world modeling project in a lead role from inception, problem definition, solution design to implementation, production deployment, maintenance and refactor 

• You have more than 2 years of experience and in-depth knowledge in retail industry and macro-economic related functions

• You are able to prioritize tasks while managing multiple projects to meet fast evolving business requirements with strong desire to drive for continuous improvement and excellence 

• You have proven experience in building compelling stories by integrating multiple data sources and complex analytics into cohesive insights to drive executive decisions 

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