Position Summary...
Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
What you'll do...
About Team :Advertising Technology
Ever wondered what would a convergence of online and offline advertising systems look like Ever wondered how we can bridge the gap between sponsored search, display, video ad formats Ever thought how we can write our own ad servers which serve billions of requests in near real-time
Our Advertising Technology team is building an end-to-end advertising platform that is key to Walmart's overall growth strategy. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to ingest, model, and analyze Walmart's proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.
Position Requirements:
What You Will Do
As a Staff Data Scientists for Walmart Labs, you'll have the opportunity to
- Apply and/or develop ML solutions to develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale
- Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart's business and drive actionable insights from terabytes of data
- Leverage data science tools and techniques, keeping abreast with the latest in the community to solve problems for Walmart
- Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.
- Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time.
- Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future plans.
- Develop PoC, present lucidly to the business and evolve the solutions
- Take forward the solutions into Pipelines/APIs as needed by the business
- Research, learn/disseminate & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve upon existing solutions
- Adopt Wal-Mart's quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry
Your Responsibility:
- Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning by following industry best practices and staying up-to-date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning research.
- Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.
- Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.
- Mentor peers and junior members and handle multiple projects at the same time.
- Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences such as NIPS, ICML, AAAI and COLT
- Participate and speak at various external forums such as research conferences and technical summits.
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
What You Will Bring
- PhD with 4 years of experience / Master's degree with 7 years of experience / bachelor's degree with 9 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in STEM. Experience should be relevant to the role.
- Experience in analyzing complex problems and translating them to data science algorithms with due attention to computational efficiency and testing at scale.
- Expertise in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised: Forecasting, Classification, Data/Text Mining, NLP, Decision Trees, Adaptive Decision Algorithms, Random Forest, Search Algorithms, Neural Networks, Deep Learning Algorithms and Re-inforecement Learning
- Experience in statistical learning: Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics, Web Analytics, Parametric and Non-parametric models, Regression, Time Series, Dynamic / Causal Model, Statistical Learning, Guided Decisions, Topic Modeling
- Experience working with big data - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data.
- Experience with Python and one Object Oriented Programming Language.
- Worked with at least one main stream machine learning framework such as caffe, convNet, Tensor Flow and Torch
- Experience with SQL, relational databases and data warehouse
- Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop(Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL) / Spark / H20
- Domain Knowledge : Merchandising Divisions in Retail.
- Experience with multiple stakeholder management, data based story-telling, mentoring peers and juniors, multiple project handling at the same time.
About Walmart Global Tech
From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth, and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmart's scale enables us to have an. No other company has the reach of Walmart, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.
Flexible, Hybrid Work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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.
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...
G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-1937516
