Job Location: Bengaluru
About Walmart
With yearly revenue of $559 bn, Walmart employs approximately 2.2 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a simple and seamless experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics are enabling us to better serve our customers and create a digital relationship with them. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We’re changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from physical stores, to mobile, social and even online forums; we’re not just ready for the future of shopping, we’re creating it.
Walmart India Development Centre is the cutting-edge technology arm of Walmart that
helps to operate our stores across the world. If you’re thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. At Walmart India Development Centre, we don’t just innovate, we enable transformations across stores and different channels for the Walmart experience. Take a regular day at Walmart Labs and match that with 265 million customers transactions a week, 11,500 stores under 56 banners in 27 countries, and eCommerce websites in 10 countries. That’s Walmart Labs for you.
Team and Position Summary
Walmart Marketplace
Walmart 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 fulfillment, 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/
Position Responsibilities
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.
o Working together with a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers to develop, implement, and test scalable solutions for marketing intelligence domain.
o Consult with business stakeholders across Marketplace functions regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought-leader to develop these into business actions.
o Mentor junior members and Individually execute multiple projects at the same time.
o 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.
o Excellent academic or industrial track record of proposing, conducting and reporting results of original research, plus collaborative research with publications
o Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Position Requirements
o Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics and has made significant original contributions to the area in practice.
o Solid experience working with state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms on real-world problems, preferably in ecommerce domain.
o Strong Python coding skills and able to work with at least one other programming language such as Java/Scala.
o Ability to work in a big data ecosystem – expert in SQL/Hive and ability to work with Spark.
o Extensive hands on experience building and deploying state of the art models (classic ML and Deep learning)
o Strong ability to understand the business and good stakeholder management capabilities and has mentored data scientists in developing ML solutions.
Qualifications
o PhD with > 6 years of experience / Master’s degree with > 10 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or a related area. Experience should be relevant to the role.
o Good to have:
o Experience in ecommerce domain.
o Experience in R and Julia
o Demonstrated success in data science platforms like Kaggle.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity, unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
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