(USA) Staff Data Engineer, Technology

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Data and Customer Analytics (DCA) Organization:  

Our organization focuses on managing and delivering world-class data assets, including creating and maintaining data standards, driving policy compliance, creating partnerships, and developing pipelines and self-service tools. We empower our business to leverage data to fuel growth, driving revenue in our core and building new business model opportunities.   

What you'll do:   

• You will use cutting edge data engineering techniques to create critical datasets and dig into our mammoth scale of data to help unleash the power of data science by imagining, developing, and maintaining data pipelines that our Data Scientists and Analysts can rely on. 

• You will be responsible for contributing to an orchestration layer of complex data transformations, refining raw data from source into targeted, valuable data assets for consumption in a governed way. 

• You will partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, other engineers, and business stakeholders to solve complex and exciting challenges so that we can build out capabilities that evolve the marketplace business model while making a positive impact on our customers' and sellers’ lives. 

• You will lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, Web Operations, project management, business and user experience teams. Obtaining cross-function approvals, driving proof-of-concept and implementing prototypes to validate ideas. 

• You will develop Innovation strategies, processes and best practices by leading internal technical teams.  Partnering with cross-functional teams across the business. Developing assessments of key opportunities, documenting project scopes, developing long-range plans and project timelines.  Communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization and resolving technology differences across teams through informed discussions.  

• Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practices, benchmarking industry against internal processes and solutions. Researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with internal needs and defining software development guidelines, standards and processes.  

• You will drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs. Developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance. Developing contingency plans and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. 

• You will provide guidance and mentorship to juni