(USA) Data Scientist - Marketplace

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

This role will be focused on the Marketplace Customer Experience, Traffic and Discovery platform. Our team is growing, and we are looking for a highly motivated Data Scientist who will play a critical role in build Machine Learning solutions, working along with others within the Marketplace engineering organization and business stakeholders. The Customer Experience, Traffic and Discovery platform team's mission is to offer a best-in-class, resilient, scalable and best in class ecosystem for Walmart customers.

You will need to be a self-starter with bias for action and excellent communication skills. This is a rare opportunity, moving at the speed of a startup, with the backing and in house data of the Fortune 1 company. You will drive projects of high visibility across the organizationwhileleadingthe work of other small groups of engineersacross geographies.

About the team

Marketplace Engineering team is at the forefront of building core platforms and services to enable Walmart to deliver vast selection at competitive prices and with best-in-class post-order experience by enabling third-party sellers to list, sell and manage their products to our customers on walmart.com. We do this by managing the entire seller lifecycle, monitoring customer experience, and deliver high- value insights to our sellers to help them plan their assortment, price, inventory. The team also actively collaborates with partner platform teams to ensure we continue to deliver the best experience to our sellers and our customers.

Position Responsibilities

As a Data Scientist for Walmart , you'll have the opportunity to:

• Drive data-derived insights across the 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, assessing data validity and synthesizing 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 influencing future plans based on insights

Position Requirements

• Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics

• Experience in Analyzing the Complex Problems and translate it into data science algorithms

• Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised and deep learning.

• Hands on experience in Computer Visions and NLP.

• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data

• Strong Experience in Python with excellent knowledge of Data Structures

• Strong Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala, Spark)

• Hands on experience with Git

• Experience with SQL and relational databases, data warehouse

Qualifications

• Bachelors with > 5 years of experience / Master's degree with > 3 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or a related area. Experience should be relevant to the role.

Good to have:

• Experience in ecommerce domain.

• Experience in R and Julia

• Demonstrated success in data science platforms like Kaggle.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

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.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

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

Data science, machine learning, optimization models, Master's degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)

Primary Location...
121 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5989, United States of America