About the teamWalmart Marketplace is a key part of e-commerce at Walmart. It is a gateway for Third-Party Sellers to manage their operations, such as onboarding, catalogs, order fulfilment, global opportunities, and return & refund management. We are responsible for providing the best in-class marketplace experience for our sellers and customers through the design, development, and operations of highly scalable systems. We interact with multiple teams within the company to develop scalable, robust technical solutions. The data scientist role will be part of the data science team and will play a key role working along with others within the Marketplace engineering organization, product managers and business stakeholders to build Machine Learning products.

More about Marketplace: https://marketplace.walmart.com/

What You'll Do

A Staff data scientist would be expected to play an important role in developing and scaling data science solutions in order to achieve outstanding business outcomes for Marketplace.

Working together with a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers to develop, implement, and test scalable solutions for marketing intelligence domain.

Consult with business stakeholders across Marketplace functions regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought-leader to develop these into business actions.

Mentor junior members and Individually execute multiple projects at the same time.

Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning led initiatives by following industry best practices and staying up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in data science research.

Excellent academic or industrial track record of proposing, conducting and reporting results of original research, plus collaborative research with publications

Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

What You'll bring

Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics and has made significant original contributions to the area in practice.

Solid experience working with state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms on real-world problems, preferably in ecommerce domain.

Strong Python coding skills and able to work with at least one other programming language such as Java/Scala.

Ability to work in a big data ecosystem - expert in SQL/Hive and ability to work with Spark.

Extensive hands on experience building and deploying state of the art models (classic ML and Deep learning)

Strong ability to understand the business and good stakeholder management capabilities and has mentored data scientists in developing ML solutions

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.

Walmart's culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is everyone included. By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people

Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

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...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India

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