(USA) Staff, Data Scientist

Position Summary

As a Staff Data Scientist at Walmart, you will leverage advanced analytical techniques and machine learning to transform complex data into actionable business insights. This role requires expertise in data strategy, model development, and visualization to support decision-making across multiple domains. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data sources, validate models, and deploy scalable solutions that drive operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Develop world-class data ontology approach for our enterprise data platforms.
• Identify and source relevant data from multiple business domains and databases to support analytics initiatives.
• Perform initial data quality assessments to ensure accuracy and reliability of datasets.
• Develop, validate, and tune predictive models using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Create clear and insightful data visualizations to communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Translate complex business problems into data-driven solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy models and monitor performance in production environments.
• Mentor team members on best practices in data science methodologies and coding standards.

About the team

Our team manages enterprise-scale big data platforms, delivering stable and governed data warehouse and lake solutions. We develop advanced platform capabilities to support large-scale data needs across business domains, enabling applications, reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives. Focused on reliability, scalability, and innovation, we integrate cloud-native architectures and AI agents to enhance system performance. Emphasizing operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technical leadership, the team ensures robust, enterprise-grade platforms that drive business value and support strategic objectives across Walmart’s ecosystem.

What you'll bring

• Proven expertise in predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and advanced statistical modeling techniques.
• Proficiency in Python programming and data visualization tools such as Matplotlib, Plotly, or Tableau.
• Strong knowledge of data management, data quality standards, and data governance principles.
• Experience with exploratory data analysis and big data analytics across structured and unstructured datasets.
• Experience with recommendation systems.
• Ability to assess, validate, and tune models using appropriate evaluation metrics and best practices.
• Understanding of business context to translate requirements into actionable data-driven solutions.
• Skilled in deploying and scaling models in production environments with continuous performance monitoring.

About Walmart

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Data science, machine learning, optimization models.
• PhD 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).
• We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

Primary Location

2403 Se J St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Additional Compensation

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : Stock

Drug-Free Workplace

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.