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STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST

5-10 years

Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST

Walmart

posted 4hr ago

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Flexible timing

Job Description

Drives 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; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
What youll do :
  • Model Development: Design, develop, and implement advanced algorithms for Demand forecasting
  • Data Analysis: Analyze large datasets to extract actionable insights and refine model inputs, including forecasts and cost structures.
  • Optimization and Machine Learning: Employ optimization and machine learning techniques in inventory placement to improve efficiency and reduce costs across the network.
  • Collaboration and Stakeholder Management : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and supply chain specialists, merchandisers.
As a Staff Data Scientists for, you ll have the opportunity to
  • Apply and/or develop ML solutions to develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.
  • Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart s business and drive actionable insights from terabytes of data.
  • Leverage data science tools and techniques, keeping abreast with the latest in the community to solve problems for Walmart.
  • Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering, and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.
  • Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time.
  • Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future.
  • Develop PoC, present lucidly to the business and evolve the solutions.
  • Take forward the solutions into Pipelines/APIs as needed by the business.
  • Research, learn/disseminate & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve upon existing solutions.
  • Adopt Wal-Mart s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry.
  • Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning by following industry best practices and staying up to date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning research.
  • Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.
  • Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.
  • Mentor peers and junior members and handle multiple projects at the same time.
  • Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences such as NIPS, ICML, AAAI and COLT
  • Participate and speak at various external forums such as research conferences and technical summits.
  • Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
What you will bring:
  • Educational Background: Masters degree in Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or a related fields.
  • PhD: Doctorate degree in Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or a related fields with 5+ years of experience post grad school
  • Technical Skills: Outstanding skills in programming in Python, SQL/Spark; statistics, forecasting, data analytics, machine learning, and optimization tools.
  • Worked with at least one mainstream machine learning framework such as caffe, convNet, Tensor Flow and Torch
  • Experience with SQL, relational databases and data warehouse
  • Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop(Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL) / Spark / H20
  • Domain Knowledge : Ecommerce, Supply chain
  • Experience with multiple stakeholder management, data based story-telling, mentoring peers and juniors, multiple project handling at the same time.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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.
 
Minimum Qualifications...
 
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 4 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 6 years experience in an analytics or related field.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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What Data Scientist at Walmart are saying

3.0
 Rating based on 10 Data Scientist reviews

Likes

Although it varies from team to team, in general there is work life balance, and the work culture is good. The usual standard facilities like food at the office, and cab services are available. The additional benefits like mobile phone reimbursement, fitness reimbursement are okay as well. There is a general sense of belonging to the company due to the satisfactory culture.

Dislikes

Promotions after IN3/4 are usually slow. Compared to other Tier 1 tech companies, the compensation is generally a bit lesser. The primary goal isn't Engineering Excellence but tech is more of a retail-enabler.

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Data Scientist salary at Walmart

reported by 196 employees with 2-8 years exp.
₹16.4 L/yr - ₹60 L/yr
152% more than the average Data Scientist Salary in India
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What Walmart employees are saying about work life

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Flexible timing
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Walmart Benefits

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