Data Scientist

Position Summary...

The Data Scientist represents the foundation of a data driven culture that has made Wal-Mart a leader in the retail industry. Individual in this role will use a wealth of available product data to generate product attributes to be used by the enterprise. The successful candidate will have an established background in building products, solving complex problems, a strong technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Our team is small, creative, diligent, highly entrepreneurial and business focused with a unique opportunity to work on a large Walmart US project within Walmart Canada.

What you'll do...

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of a scalable data science platform by solutioning the best applicable model for the required business challenges with an emphasis on speed and accuracy.
• Brainstorm solutions and improvements and concisely present to leadership suggested changes and their impact.
• Interact with other data scientists and provide guidance based on the current state of the data science platform.
• Capability to implement improvements to the overall design and underlying infrastructure.
• Create production-ready code in standardized template for other team members to leverage to expedite their work.
• Help to engage and interact with external business stakeholders and other technical teams to pass on data science learnings.
• Enable others in the organization to utilize your work by sharing your work as well as act as an ambassador for Data Science within Walmart Canada

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or another highly technical or analytical field
• 2-3 of years of working experience
• Ability to be a self-starter in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and its offerings (BigQuery, VertexAI, GKE).
• Robust understanding of machine learning algorithms and their mathematical foundations.
• Ability to assess model confidence measurements and selection of appropriate models depending on business problem
• Experience with supervised and GenAI models, specifically transformer models.
• Strong skills in data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, and feature engineering.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age -- 16 or older

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location... 1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada