Senior Data Scientist

Full-time A/B Testing Analytics Big Data Data Analysis Data Collection Data Visualization Python R SQL Statistics

Job Description

Duties:

  • Partner with C-suite, corporate strategy, finance, marketing, merchandising, research, product, data science, and analytics organizations to drive outcomes and influence strategic and tactical decision-making.
  • Identify, collect, and explore large amounts of data used for predictive modeling and algorithm development while performing developments using statistical and modeling techniques.
  • Develop and implement quantitative analyses, predictive models, and customer KPIs to uncover insights on the customer journey and identify cause-effect relationships between business actions and customer outcomes.
  • Identify high value customer actions across Walmart products/services that will help Walmart meet customer needs.
  • Evaluate behaviors and actions that unlock incremental value by leveraging causal analysis methodologies.
  • Translate and simplify data-informed insights into actionable business recommendations, implications, and relevant data products.
  • Develop visualizations and presentations to clearly and effectively communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Partner with data and technical engineers to define data and tracking requirements.

Minimum education and experience required:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 year of experience in an analytics related field;
  • OR Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years of experience in an analytics related field.

Skills required:

  • Experience with complex data processing and manipulating using SQL.
  • Experience with data analysis and visualization using R and Python.
  • Experience analyzing customer behavior using statistical models, causal inference, and supervised/unsupervised learning methods.
  • Experience creating compelling visualizations and presentations to communicate insights and recommendations effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Experience designing and developing processes and frameworks for analytical projects.
  • Experience creating predictive models and customer KPIs/metrics to uncover insights on the customer journey.
  • Experience developing measurement and automation reporting and dashboards for customer cohort metrics.
  • Experience designing A/B tests to identify drivers of customer behavior and using statistical methods to analyze results.
  • Experience working with large amounts of data in a cloud environment.
  • Experience delivering data-driven insights and recommendations to support customer-centric decision-making processes.
  • Experience collaborating with data and technical engineers to scope and define data needs for projects.

Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job ID

R-1960236