PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

What You Will Do

• You will work with the multiple teams and guide them on technical aspects, set quality standards and participate in design discussion and drive technical decisions
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI/ML projects, from ideation to deployment, ensuring alignment with Walmarts strategic goals.
• Design and implement scalable cloud-based machine learning and data science solutions, leveraging, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
• Develop novel algorithms and leverage state-of-the-art AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, HuggingFace) to solve complex problems in indirect procurement optimization, customer personalization, and operational efficiency.
• Build highly parallelized compute environments for processing large-scale datasets, optimizing performance across CPU and GPU architectures.
• Collaborate with diverse teams across engineering, business, and operations to understand requirements and integrate data science solutions seamlessly.
• Advocate for best practices in software development, including CI/CD, unit testing, and documentation, to ensure robust and reliable systems.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to building a culture of innovation and learning within the data science community at Walmart.
• Code Reviews across teams
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
• Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• You will use your engineering experience and technical skill to develop highly scalable and robust solutions. You will work with Engineering Lead/architect.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
• You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to open source technologies to Make impact on a global scale
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• 10+ years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with a multidisciplinary team.
• Work with senior data scientists to design, architect, and build AI/ML model and model systems.
• Work with machine learning engineers to deploy, operate, and optimize scalable solutions
• Work with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyze user telemetry.
• Create opportunities to develop yourself with an end-to-end AI/ML product experience.
• Work with a set of robust work standards to ensure we build trustworthy AI/ML solutions
• Hosted & Participated Architecture Review & Design/Code Review events.
• Hands on System Designing experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Extensive hands-on experience building services using these technologies (Scala, Java, Springboot, Microservices ,NodeJs)
• Hands-on experience in web technologies like React JS/Angular Js, Java script, Type script, CSS
• Good Knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Knowledge on Linux platform
• Knowledge on unit testing frameworks (Junit, Jest , Spock etc) and code quality control platforms like Sonar
• Knowledge on cloud platforms any cloud platforms like IAAS/PAAS
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Experience in implementing Distributed Cache(Redis/Hazlecast)
• Well-Versed with Logging and Metrics tools and technologies (ELK/Splunk/Grafana)
• Knowledge in search engines like Lucene/Solr
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud based project.
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology
  
  

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.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 5 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 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...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-2196869