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Senior, Data Scientist @ Walmart

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 Senior, Data Scientist

Job Description

Position Summary... Job Summary
As a Senior Data Scientist, youll have the opportunity to
Drive data-derived insights across a wide range of retail divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives
Direct the gathering of data, assess data validity and synthesize data into large analytics datasets to support project goals
Utilize big data analytics and advanced data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights
Build and train statistical models and machine learning algorithms for replication for future projects
Communicate recommendations to business partners and influence future plans based on insights
What youll do...
About the team
International Data Science team at Walmart Global Tech is focused on using the latest research in machine learning, statistics and optimization to solve business problems in assortment, pricing, sourcing, customer, supply chain, and replenishment areas for multiple countries within Walmart s global operations. We mine data, distill insights, extract information, build analytical models, deploy Machine Learning algorithms, and use the latest algorithms and technology to empower business decision-making. We work with engineers to build reference architectures and machine learning pipelines in a big data ecosystem to productize our solutions. Advanced analytical algorithms driven by our team will help Walmart to optimize business operations, business practices and change the way our customers shop.
What You ll Do
  • Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart s business and drive actionable insights from petabytes of data
  • Utilize product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping
  • Demonstrate an incremental solution approach with the agility and flexibility to address practical challenges.
  • Lead small teams and act as the technical lead within data science project teams.
  • Partner with senior team members to assess customer needs and define business problems
  • Clearly articulate and present recommendations to business partners, and influence future plans based on insights
  • Partner and engage with associates in other regions for delivering best services to the customers around the globe
  • Work with customer centric mindset to deliver high quality business driven analytic solution
  • Mentor peers and data scientists across the division in data science best practices
  • Drive innovation in approach, method, practices, process, outcome, delivery, or any component of end-to-end problem solving
  • Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
What You ll bring
  • Bachelors with > 7 years /Masters > 5 years /Ph.D. in Comp Science / Statistics / Mathematics / Quantitative discipline with > 3 years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or a related area.
  • Experience in analyzing complex problems and translate it into data science algorithms
  • Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised: NLP, Classification, Data/Text Mining, Multi-modal supervised and unsupervised models, 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
  • Embedding generation from training materials, storage and retrieval from Vector Databases, set-up and provisioning of managed LLM gateways, development of Retrieval augmented generation based LLM agents, model selection, iterative prompt engineering and finetuning based on accuracy and user-feedback, monitoring and governance.
  • Lead role mentoring multiple Jr. Data Scientists on approach and results.
  • Strong Experience in Python, PySpark
  • Google Cloud platform, Vertex AI, Kubeflow, model deployment
  • Strong Experience with big data platforms Hadoop (Hive, Map Reduce, Scala)
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
  • Domain Knowledge of one or more divisions in Retail, preferably in Sourcing domain
  • 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 big data platforms - Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL) / Spark
  • Experience in deep learning and worked in TensorFlow and Torch
  • Experience with GPU/CUDA for computational efficiency
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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.
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Minimum Qualifications...
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1- Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 years experience in an analytics or related field.
Preferred Qualifications...
Primary Location... BLOCK- 2, PRESTIGE TECH PACIFIC PARK, SY NO. 38/1P, OUTER RING ROAD KADUBEESANAHALLI, , India

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Machine Learning
Role: Data Scientist
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Walmart
Location(s): Bengaluru

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Keyskills:   Supply chain Computer science global operations data science Web analytics Analytical Machine learning Information technology Monitoring Business operations

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