Your first year will be focused on stabilizing processes, documenting key data assets, and building sustainable governance practices—particularly around high-priority initiatives like Member 360 and other critical data platforms. A strong understanding of data analysis and data engineering principles will help you work more effectively with technical teams, ensuring governance strategies are practical, scalable, and aligned with how data is actually stored, transformed, and used.What you'll do...
Lead Transition and Stabilization of Key Data Assets
Within the first 30 days, assess Member 360 and related asset governance processes, identify documentation gaps, and implement immediate improvements.
Socialize governance standards across teams to ensure proper onboarding and adoption of data stewardship practices.
Establish and Document Governance Processes
Within the first 90 days, create clear, accessible documentation for all high-value data assets and governance workflows.
By year-end, deliver a comprehensive “what worked/what didn’t” governance report to inform next-year strategy.
Reduce Operational Complexity in a Fast-Moving Environment
Identify bottlenecks and risks caused by too many simultaneous initiatives; implement process controls to prevent governance issues from “getting out of hand.”
Standardize procedures so that rapid execution does not compromise data integrity.
Integrate Data Analysis & Engineering Knowledge into Governance
Apply a working knowledge of data analysis to interpret business data needs, collaborate with analytics teams, and validate that governance practices support accurate insights.
Partner with data engineering teams to ensure governance processes align with data pipelines, storage, and integration patterns.
Build and Scale a High-Performing Team
Lead 3 direct reports and recruit for an open Senior Manager role, ensuring the team has the skills and capacity to deliver governance objectives.
Establish clear KPIs for the team tied to adoption, data quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Drive Stakeholder Engagement and Adoption
Partner effectively with Walmart Enterprise Data Governance and Compliance, ensuring seamless alignment on policies, tools, and standards.
Achieve buy-in from business and technology leaders through regular updates, workshops, and governance advocacy.
Deliver Measurable Governance Outcomes
Reduce data quality issues in critical domains by at least 30% within the first 12 months.
Ensure at least 80% of targeted business units adopt governance practices by year-end.
What You’ll BringProven Leadership in Data Governance and Stewardship
Successful track record in implementing governance frameworks and improving data quality in complex, fast-moving organizations.
Understanding of Data Analysis and Engineering
Ability to collaborate with technical teams on data pipelines, storage, transformations, and analytics workflows to ensure governance processes are technically feasible and business-aligned.
Hands-On Process Building
Experience establishing governance processes from the ground up, particularly in newly formed or rapidly scaling teams.
Stakeholder Partnership Skills
Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively across enterprise data governance, compliance, engineering, and analytics teams.
Operational Discipline in High-Velocity Environments
Skilled at managing multiple moving parts simultaneously without sacrificing quality or compliance.
Change Management Expertise
Ability to drive adoption of governance practices, build team capabilities, and influence organizational culture.
Talent Development
Experience in developing high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, and filling critical skill gaps.
- 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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. 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.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Data Architecture, or related field and 6 years' experience in data stewardship, data management, database administration, data analytics, or related field. Option 2: 8 years' experience in data stewardship, data management, database administration, data analytics, or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Business, Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Data Architecture, or related field and 4 years' experience in in data stewardship, data management, database administration, data analytics, or related field.2 years’ supervisory experience.Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Data Management certification (for example, Certified Data Management Professional), Driving taxonomy development and application particularly with large and complex sets of information, Industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare), Master's degree in Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Data Architecture, Supervisory experiencePrimary Location...2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America