Job Description
If you are thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company with 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries, and $524 billion revenues in fiscal year 2020. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work.
Your Opportunity
We are looking for a Software Data Engineer to join our growing team of engineering experts in Replenishment Area. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer will support on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.
About Team:
Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivaled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services. With more than 600 physical clubs across different geographic region in US, Sam’s Club chain serves more than 50 million US members and is rated among the top retailers in US.
What you'll do:
- Data Transformation and Integration: Extracts data from identified databases and transform data to a structure that is relevant to the problem by selecting appropriate techniques.
- Data Source Identification: Helps identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for the requirements.
- Data Modeling: Analyses complex data elements, systems, data flows, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual, physical, and logical data models.
- Build and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines with internal and external partners.
- Perform deep analysis leveraging customer datasets to build customer insights.
- Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
- Participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirement); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery.
- Creates training documentation and trains end-users on data modeling. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and 3-5 years of proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role in data management
- Or, master’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and 2-3 years of proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role in data management.
- Proficient in real time & batch pipelines in big data technologies (i.e. Spark/Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop/Elasticsearch, NoSql Dbs etc.)
- Proficiency in languages such as Python, Scala, Java.
- Experience with the workflow management platform like Airflow/hudi.
- Experience with Cloud computing platforms like GCP and Azure.
- Proficient with Designing and building APIs
- Hands on Experience with PL/SQL to query data & generate insights using complex queries, stored procedures, and user defined functions.
- Security, API Gateway.
- Familiarity with Engineering practices in Analytics space using tools like PowerBi, Tableau.
- Experience with data modeling & data migration protocols.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Release & Deployment , CI/CD
- Code/ Design reviews
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design.
Note, Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.
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 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:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
