SENIOR, DATA ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Nov 2
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
The Advertising and Marketing Technology team at Walmart builds an end-to-end advertising and marketing platform that is central to Walmart’s growth strategy, using data mining, analytics, and optimization algorithms on online and in-store data covering 95% of American households. The team develops smart data systems for relevant retail ads and experiences connecting customers with brands and products. This Senior Data Engineer role leads the data engineering team in designing and maintaining data applications, champions AI in data engineering, architects back-end solutions, and works with product, data science, and engineering partners on scalable data analytics pipelines.
What you will do
- Lead the data engineering team in the design, development, and maintenance of our data applications.
- Champion the use of AI in data engineering applications
- Lead efforts for engineering and operational excellence
- Work with the product team to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Architect and implement back end solutions that meet the needs of the business.
- Mentor and coach junior developers on data engineering technologies.
- Set and enforce coding standards and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews and bug fixing.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest data engineering technologies.
- Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting multi-billion-dollar business.
- Proactively monitor, identify, and escalate issues or root causes of systemic issues
- Be the consummate team player with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. amazing ability to get stuff done.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech
- Work with data science team to implement data analytics pipelines
- Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our platform
- Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- BE or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years experience
- Experience with a variety of programming languages and frameworks such as Spark, Hive, BigQuery, Java, Python.
- Experience in bootstrap production and non-prod environments in public/private cloud.
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems with the ability to troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed, multi-tier architectures. Excellent debugging and problem solving capability.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience collaborating with multiple teams
- Follows the industry trends in the online world
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
- Option 2: 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
- Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related field.
- 2 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
Benefits and support
- incentive awards for your performance
- maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- health benefits
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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