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.

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Minimum Qualifications...

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Preferred Qualifications...

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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

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