(USA) Senior, Data Analyst
About The Position
As a Senior Data Analyst, you will drive data governance initiatives by partnering with business and technical stakeholders to establish enterprise data standards, govern critical data assets, improve data quality, and ensure consistent, trusted use of data across the organization. This role requires a deep understanding of data quality, governance, and visualization techniques to support strategic decision-making across multiple business domains. You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Your contributions will enhance data integrity, optimize processes, and drive measurable improvements, supporting Walmart’s commitment to operational excellence and informed business strategies. Our team is committed to ensuring the accuracy, security, and consistency of People data across the enterprise. We collaborate with business and technology leaders globally to define standards, metrics, KPIs, and access controls essential for workforce intelligence. By transforming data into a trusted strategic asset, we support responsible AI and enable confident decision-making. Our work underpins analytics and insights that shape the future understanding and management of the workforce, fostering data stewardship and governance to maintain high-quality, reliable information for enterprise-wide use.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data management, data quality, and data governance practices.
- Proficiency with data profiling, cleansing, and stewardship techniques to ensure data accuracy.
- Strong knowledge of database technologies including SQL and NoSQL systems.
- Ability to identify and source data fit for business needs and perform initial quality assessments.
- Expertise in data visualization tools and techniques to communicate complex insights effectively.
- Skilled in applying data strategy principles to support business objectives and decision-making.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally to translate business requirements into data-driven solutions.
- Familiarity with project management and facilitation to drive data initiatives and stakeholder engagement.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
- Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
- 4 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
- Establish and govern business terms, data definitions, metadata, and standards to ensure consistent and trusted use of enterprise data.
- Partner with data owners, stewards, and stakeholders to drive governance adoption and compliance with enterprise policies.
- Facilitate data quality issue identification, remediation, and root cause resolution for critical data assets.
- Support data classification, certification, lineage, ownership, and access governance processes.
- Lead governance reviews and evaluate changes for alignment with established standards.
- Develop governance communications and training while promoting data literacy, stewardship accountability, and trusted data foundations that enable analytics, compliance, and AI-driven insights.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 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
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
