Staff Data Engineer | Applied AI | Sunnyvale/Bentonville

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Walmart Global Tech is looking to hire a Staff Data Engineer in Sunnyvale/Bentonville. As a seasoned data engineer, you have a proven track record of building and maintaining scalable, highly available, and resilient data pipelines using Java/Python, containerization (Docker), messaging technologies (Kafka/Cloud Pub/Sub), and cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform). With expertise in Big Data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, and Data Flow Orchestration (Airflow), you excel at handling large data sets and adhere to software engineering best practices like version control (Git), CI/CD, and automated unit testing.

About Team: Applied AI Data Engineering

We are a distributed team of 10 data engineers supporting about 250 data scientists and machine learning engineers to deliver various data science projects with huge business impact in billions of dollars. We are growing and looking for talented data engineers to help support business and help us build unified, foundational data sets for AI/ML algorithms. Everyone has data, but the sheer volume of data at Walmart can be limitless. In the Data Engineering team, we help Walmart manage this data by building pipelines and data lakes to prepare big data for analysis and unlocking actionable insights in real-time. We also use cross-departmental data and machine learning to build a holistic view of true profitability, saving millions of dollars across item categories and geographies while assisting our leadership in making better decisions faster. Our team's vision is to build foundational data for AI/ML algorithms and empower all verticals thereby enabling E2E optimization.

What you'll do:

• Analyze, translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects and aligns them to business strategy and objectives, and drives the execution of deliverables.
• Defines and identifies the most suitable sources for required data that is fit for purpose, referring to external sources as required.
• Builds the infrastructure required for optimal transformation and integration from a wide variety of data sources using appropriate data integration technologies.
• Uses modern tools, techniques, and architectures to automate the most-common, repeatable and tedious data preparation and integration tasks partially or completely.
• Provides guidance to business stakeholders, peers, and junior associates on the implementation of data governance practices.
• Collaborates with team members in solving business problems effectively.

What you'll bring:

• 7 years of experience in software development, focusing on building large scale distributed systems.
• You have experience in building batch and streaming data pipelines that are scalable, available and resilient.
• You have experience with Java and/or Python, container technology (Docker), messaging technologies such as Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Data flow orchestration such as Airflow.
• You have experience with SQL (BigQuery) and NoSQL technologies such as Redis
• You have experience working with large data sets
• You have experience working with software engineering best practices such as version control (Git), CI/CD, passion for QA and are familiar with automated unit testing and DevOps
• You have exposure to machine learning modeling life cycle

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 is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.