Principal, Data Scientist

Role: Principal, Data Scientist

Experience: 13 - 18 Years

Location: Bangalore

About the team:

The Payments Intelligence team optimizes billions of payments through advanced analytics and machine learning. We build and operate a real-time data platform that powers revenue growth, fraud prevention, and enhanced customer experiences across Payments, Directed Spend, Checkout, and promotions. Our team is responsible for developing and deploying ML models that improve payment authorization rates, strengthen payment resiliency, and increase the effectiveness of promotions and rewards programs. We also drive adoption of Directed Spend by providing actionable insights.

Our team supports cross divisional programs for Transactional Systems as a part of the Global Tech organization.

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.

What you'll do:

We are looking for a Principal DS, AI/ML who has the passion to build a team, lead and direct large-scale, complex, multi-year products across organizations, executives, stakeholders, with the ability to influence partner teams, data scientists, ML engineers, product managers and software developers. A successful candidate will have an established background in launching software or services, hands on data science, AI, ML, experience in driving technical products, an entrepreneurial background, and a passion for great customer-centric online products.

Your work will have direct impact on Walmart’s top-line revenue and bottom-line profit and you will have a direct impact on the business goals of Fortune #1 company. This role also offers a unique opportunity to innovate and improve on ways to use Walmart’s e-comm & omni-channel products like Scan & Go, Walmart Stores and external data to solve problems.

• Lead a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and software engineers to design, architect, build AI/ML models and systems, and deploy, operate and optimize the solutions
• Drive Agile practice in a highly collaborative environment with a multidisciplinary team.
• Design end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML and data intensive applications
• Manage and mentor team of data scientists to develop their skills and business understanding
• Develop and deploy production-grade real-time/batch machine learning services
• Work with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyze user telemetry
• Identify or propose AI/ML use-cases to business teams to improve business processes and develop quick MVPs/ POCs to help stakeholders make better decisions
• Uphold a set of robust work standards to ensure we build trustworthy AI/ML solutions
• Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to iteratively improve our ML models and refine MLOps practice

What you'll bring :

• You have 12+ years' experience in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable, robust, and user-centric GenAI /AI /ML products and applications
• You have a bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, statistics, economics, mathematics, or related area
• You have excellent industry experience in production-grade AI/ML system development with major technology companies or AI-native start-ups.
• You can execute our trustworthy AI/ML practice with stakeholders across the enterprise.
• You can effectively manage and coach junior data scientists
• You can communicate internally and externally through publications, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.
• You have extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g. Java, Python, SQL and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• You have experience in building deep learning applications, neural network deployment optimizations and architecting ML systems
• You have experience in developing chatbots/ NLP/ recommendation-engine systems
• You are excited about building distributed machine learning systems at scale in production

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.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people