Position: Senior Data Scientist

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Support the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Help identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Perform initial data quality checks on extracted data. Understand, articulate, and apply principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Support efforts to ensure that analytical models and techniques used can be deployed into production. Support evaluation of the analytical model. Support the scalability and sustainability of analytical models. Write code to develop the required solution and application features by using the recommended programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. Test the code using the recommended testing approach. Identify the model evaluation metrics. Apply best practice techniques for model testing and tuning to assess accuracy, fit, validity, and robustness for multi-stage models and model ensembles. Generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes. Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets. Present to and influence the team and business audience using the appropriate data visualization frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding. Customize communication style based on stakeholder under guidance, and leverages rational arguments. Guide and mentor junior associates on story types, structures, and techniques based on context. Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues. Develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings. Translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and aligns to overall business strategy and develops domain specific artifact. Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results. Identify and recommend relevant business insights pertaining to their area of work. Translate/co-own business problems within one's discipline to data related or mathematical solutions. Identify appropriate methods/tools to be leveraged to provide a solution for the problem. Share use cases and gives examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem. Select the analytical modeling technique most suitable for the structured, complex data and develops custom analytical models. Conduct exploratory data analysis activities (for example, basic statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, statistical inferences) on available data. Define and finalize features based on model responses and introduces new or revised features to enhance the analysis and outcomes. Identify the dimensions of the experiment, finalize the design, test hypotheses, and conduct the experiment. Perform trend and cluster analysis on data to answer practical business problems and provide recommendations and key insights to the business. Mentor and guide junior associates on basic modeling and analytics techniques to solve complex problems. Demonstrate up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

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

Skills Required: Must have experience with: coding in Object-oriented programming languages (Python, C++, and Java); designing and testing Relational Database Management System (MySQL and Postgres); implementing data science solutions using Cloud Computing environments (GCP, AWS, and Azure Databricks); performing statistical analysis using R; visualizing data using Python, Tableau, Power BI, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly; implementing supervised machine learning techniques (linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, and XGBoost) using Python; performing statistical analysis utilizing techniques like hypothesis testing, A/B testing, t-tests, and chi-squared tests; manipulating and modelling data using PySpark; conducting Exploratory data analysis, Feature Engineering, Feature Extraction and Feature selection techniques using Python and R; Cloud data warehousing techniques like Snowflake and BigQuery; ML and Deep learning frameworks (Scikit learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras); implementing NLP techniques (tokenization, lemmatization, and NER) and LLMs using Python. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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