* Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role. *
Want to be part of a new team that is being stood up now, and be a founding member to set the strategy, culture, technology and working norms? It’s a unique chance to be an intrapreneur building something new from the ground up, while backed by the strength of Walmart and leveraging the assets of the world’s largest omnichannel retailer. To fulfill the charter of this new business initiative, there is need for top notch talent with expertise in Big Data and Distributed Systems. You would be working on challenging problems in terms of enhancing big data platforms to support data science initiatives. All the problems will require building solutions at Walmart scale. The best part is that your solutions will generate tangible and immediate business impact.
There is a vibrant infrastructure community in Walmart Global Tech which provides great learning and collaboration opportunities. Apart from the numerous internal events, there is active participation in external events. All the work we do in Walmart Global Tech will eventually benefit our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.
About Team:
Everyone has data, but the sheer volume of data at Walmart can be limitless. In the Data Engineering team, we help Walmart manage this data by building pipelines and data lakes to prepare big data for analysis and unlocking actionable insights in real-time. We also use cross-departmental data and machine learning to build a holistic view of true profitability, saving millions of dollars across item categories and geographies while assisting our leadership in making better decisions faster.
What you'll do:
- Developing Data Strategy: Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function.
- Scaling Systems: Build large scale systems to process customer data. Enable data scientists to run its model in batch and real-time. Continuous collaboration to scale the systems to support model inferencing.
- Curiosity & Courage: Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
- Digital Transformation & Change: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
- Customer Focus: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
What you'll bring:
- Experience of architecture, tools, and deployments in the hyper-scalers like GCP/Azure/AWS
- Experience with data engineering to stream and process datasets at low latencies or Experience in Java, data streaming and API
- Experience in operationalizing automated CI/CD pipelines
- You are a technically strong and high performing individual with excellent communication skills, with background in Big Data, distributed systems with good experience in technologies like Spark, Scala, Kafka, and Hadoop
- You stay updated with latest research and technology ideas and have a passion to utilize innovative ways to solve problems. Experience with Airflow/Nifi, Kafka streams, Druid or similar technologies.
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.
Base Salary Range: $117,000 - $234,000
• Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
• Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
+ Stock equity incentives
