PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Job description Position Summary... What youll do... About Team The data science team at Enterprise Business Services Pillar at Walmart Global Tech focuses on using the latest research in machine learning, statistics, and optimization to solve business problems. We mine data, distill insights, extract information, build analytical models, deploy Machine Learning algorithms, and use the latest algorithms and technology to empower business decision-making. In addition, we work with engineers to build reference architectures and machine learning pipelines in a big data ecosystem to productize our solutions. Advanced analytical algorithms driven by our team will help Walmart to optimize business operations, business practices and change the way our customers shop. The data science community at Walmart Global Tech is active in most of the Hack events, utilizing the petabytes of data at our disposal, to build some of the coolest ideas. All the work we do at Walmart Labs will eventually benefit our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better. As a Principal Data Scientist for Walmart Global Tech, youll have the opportunity to Drive data-derived insights across a wide range of retail & Finance divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives Direct the gathering of data, assess data validity and synthesize data into large analytics datasets to support project goals Utilize big data analytics and advanced data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights Build and train AI/ML models for replication for future projects Deploy and maintain the data science solutions Communicate recommendations to business partners and influence future plans based on insights What You ll Do Consult with business stakeholders regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought-leader to develop these into business actions. Closely partners with the Senior Manager & Director of Data Science to drive data science adoption in the domain Guides. data scientists, senior data scientists & staff data scientists across multiple sub-domains to ensure on-time delivery of ML products Drive efficiency across the domain in terms of DS and ML best practices, ML Ops practices, resource utilization, reusability and multi-tenancy. Lead multiple complex ML products and guide senior tech leads in the domain in efficiently leading their products. Drive synergies across different products in terms of algorithmic innovation and sharing of best practices. Proactive identification of complex business problems that can be solved using advanced ML, finding opportunities and gaps in the current business domain Evaluates proposed business cases for projects and initiatives Translates business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects and aligns them to business strategy and objectives, and drives the execution of deliverables Sets relevant deliverables based on the established success criteria and define key metrics to measure progress and effectiveness of the solution Quantifies business impact and ensures regular impact measurement of all ML products in the domain. Identifies and reviews model evaluation metrics based on analytical requirements Ensures testing information is documented and maintained by the team Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmarts business and drive actionable insights Utilize product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping Demonstrate incremental solution approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems Articulate and present recommendations to business partners and influence plans based on insights Partner and engage with associates in other regions for delivering the best services to customers around the globe Work with the customer-centric mindset to deliver high-quality business-driven analytic solutions. Drive innovation in appro