Staff, Data Engineer

About Team:

Enterprise Business Services – Global Time & Attendance (GTA)

This position is in the data engineering team of GTA under the Enterprise Business Services – People Tech organisation. The objective of the People tech organization is to build the best-in-class engineering, analytics and data science solutions that power the best experience for our people, adhering to the Walmart philosophy - Everyday Low Cost.

What you'll do:

GTA Data Engineering team is responsible to build and maintain GTA Data Lake platform and other analytical products to democratize access to GTA data, enabling tech teams and business users across Walmart with relevant, complete, accurate and timely data by streamlining acquisition, curation and consumption of data from various People tech systems. Our team also builds and supports multiple use-cases on top of the Datalake platform that focus on embedding analytical capabilities and recommendations into the organisation’s decision-making processes and workflows thereby increasing both the accessibility and actionability of people analytics.

You will have numerous opportunities to collaborate with

• Product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyse user telemetry.
• Data architects to design, architect, and build resilient, scalable, maintainable distributed data pipelines.
• Platform Product managers to develop technology strategies to advance our data management practices and stay abreast of the industry trends.
• Data Scientists and Machine learning engineers to help deploy, operate, and optimise scalable AL/ML solutions
• Technical Program Managers in developing and executing technical business programs of strategic importance to Walmart people data.

What you'll bring:

• Data Engineering, Cloud, Big Data Skills, Spark, Airflow, Python, Scala
• Expertise in Big Data Ecosystem tools: Hadoop, Hive, Apache Spark, Kafka, Druid, NoSQL DBs etc.
• Experience Building Batch ETL distributed data pipelines - with expertise in Hive/SQL, Apache Spark (Scala) or PySpark
• Experience in building Streaming data pipelines with Kafka, Spark Streaming etc.
• Experience working with Open-source frameworks that manages the storage of large datasets on distributed file systems (Apache Hudi, Deltalake)
• Experience working with Data Orchestration/workflow management tools such as Airflow
• Solid Cloud Development experience (on GCP or Azure)
• Proven experience in building Data quality frameworks and working with Data Governance solutions.
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing and Data Engineering best practices with experience implementing CI/CD, Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting automations for production system.

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.