Position Summary...

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. 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. 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.

What you'll do...

About Team: 
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers. 

What you'll do:

• Manage end-to-end engineering solutions for Machine Learning at scale.
• Integrate data science solutions into tangible products.
• Write efficient and quality code that can work @ Wal-Mart scale
• Productionize ML models – tackle all model management challenges.
• Parallelize algorithms/model training to make use of distributed infrastructure and reduce training time significantly.
• Adopt Wal-Mart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry.
• Mentor peers and analysts across the division in technology best practices
• Research, learn & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve existing solutions
• Participate in events to build innovative solutions
• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide drive value from data at Walmart Scale
• Interact with data science groups across Walmart to understand their major engineering challenges, build and propose solution for them.
• Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot and/or interacting with various open source forums
• Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms.
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

What you'll bring:

Competencies

• Bachelor's with 4-6 years of relevant experience OR Masters with 3-5 years of relevant experience OR PHD in Comp Science/Statistics/Mathematics with 1-2 years of relevant experience 
• Experience in Analyzing the Complex Problems and translate it into data science algorithms 
• Sound knowledge in several areas in core ML such as Forecasting, Classification, Data/Text Mining, NLP, Decision Trees, Adaptive Decision Algorithms, Random Forest, Search Algorithms, Neural Networks, Deep Learning Algorithms.
• Experience in statistical learning: Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics, Web Analytics, Parametric and Non-parametric models, Regression, Time Series, Dynamic/Causal Model, Statistical Learning, Guided Decisions, Topic Modeling 
• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data 
• Lead role mentoring multiple Jr. Analysts on approach and results. 
• Strong Experience with one or more of Python and R 
• Strong Experience with big data platforms – Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala) 
• Experience with Teradata, SQL and relational databases, data warehouse

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Domain Knowledge of one or more divisions in Retail 
• Published papers or given talks in leading academic and research journals 
• Published papers or given talks in Data Science Forums 
• Hold data science related patents 
• Experience with data warehouse platforms – No SQL Databases (Cassandra) 
• Experience with GPU/CUDA for computational efficiency

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 sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India