Data Analyst II

Wal-Mart.com USA • Hoboken, NJ

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on understanding business context, identifying data sources, formulating technical problems, visualizing data, managing data quality, and performing exploratory data analysis. The Data Analyst II will support the development of business cases, drive project delivery, and assist in solving business issues. Key responsibilities include understanding industry factors, business practices, relevant metrics, and data requirements. The role involves identifying suitable data sets for model development, understanding business data requirements, and maintaining awareness of data quality. Problem formulation includes identifying analytical methodologies to address business problems and demonstrating understanding of use cases. Data visualization involves generating graphical representations, understanding customer requirements for data representation, and presenting findings to influence teams and business audiences. Data quality management includes promoting awareness, profiling, analyzing, testing, validating, and cleansing data, as well as managing user access and learning data governance processes. Exploratory data analysis involves applying statistical techniques, supporting data collection, exploring data with various tools, executing existing models, and analyzing data to identify trends and correlations. The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and adherence to company values and policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field
• 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce)
• Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)

Responsibilities

• Support the development of business cases and recommendations.
• Drive delivery of project activity and tasks assigned by others.
• Support process updates and changes.
• Support under guidance in solving business issues.
• Develop initial drafts to support the identification of the most suitable source for data.
• Maintain awareness of data quality.
• Identify possible options to address the business problems within ones discipline through relevant analytical methodologies.
• Demonstrate understanding of use cases and desired outcomes.
• Generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes.
• Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets.
• Work with User Experience designers and User Interface engineers as required to build front end applications.
• Present to and influence the team and business audience using the appropriate data visualization frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding.
• Customize communication style based on stakeholder under guidance and leverage rational arguments.
• Guide and mentor junior associates on story types structures and techniques based on context.
• Promote data quality awareness.
• Profile, analyze, and assess data quality.
• Test and validate data quality requirements under supervision of others.
• Execute operational Data Quality Management procedures under supervision of others.
• Conduct data cleansing activities to remove data quality defects, improve data quality, and eliminate unused data under supervision of others.
• Grant user access to data.
• Learn company and regulatory policies on data.
• Learn data governance processes, practices, policies, and guidelines.
• Support identification and application of statistical techniques based on requirements.
• Apply suitable technique under direction from leadership.
• Support data collection and evaluation.
• Explore data using simple tools.
• Execute existing statistical models and explain how they relate to a clients situation.
• Analyze data and computes descriptive statistics that identify trends, outliers, and correlations.
• Demonstrates uptodate expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices, supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs, and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, identifying business needs, determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices, monitoring progress and results, recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans, using the Open Door Policy, and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.
• Demonstrates and encourages respect for others, drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all, embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging so all associates thrive and perform, contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
• Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively to achieve objectives, communicates with impact, and listens attentively to a range of audiences, and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
• Follows the law, our code of conduct, and company policies and encourages others to do the same, supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, reinforces our culture of non-retaliation, listens to concerns raised by associates, and takes action, acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Delivers results while putting the customer/member first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Adopts a broad perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart through the Live Better U program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level