(USA) Manager, Advanced Analytics

Walmart • San Bruno, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Within Walmart Connect, the Platform & Infrastructure Enablement (PIE) team helps Analytics teams use platforms and infrastructure effectively, optimize technical workflows, automate recurring technical work, and build reusable platforms that can scale across teams. The team's goal is to help Analytics teams operate and scale efficiently through reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms, infrastructure, and technical workflows.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on improving the performance, reliability, and efficiency of Analytics code, workflows, and infrastructure. The Manager works directly with Walmart Connect Analytics teams to review and optimize complex queries, resolve technical and operational challenges, automate recurring work, and improve development practices. The role requires strong technical judgment and the ability to independently investigate complex problems, implement solutions, and drive continuous improvement across Analytics workflows and infrastructure.

Success means independently owning complex technical challenges across analytical workloads, infrastructure, and automation, delivering measurable improvements in performance, reliability, operational efficiency, and cost, and helping Analytics teams improve how their code and workflows are developed and operated.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on proficiency in SQL, including complex analytical queries, joins, query analysis, performance optimization, and large-scale analytical workloads.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python, including coding, debugging, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, analytical data warehouses, and workflow orchestration tools, and a strong understanding of data pipelines, storage, and compute.
• Experience with DevOps practices relevant to data and Analytics workflows, including source control, job scheduling, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently diagnose complex technical problems, make sound technical decisions, and drive solutions through implementation.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to structure technical problems clearly, explain findings and recommendations, and work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or a related field and 2 years of experience in data analytics or a related field, or 4 years of experience in data analytics or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with GCP, BigQuery, and Airflow in a large-scale Analytics or data environment.
• Experience delivering infrastructure efficiency, performance, or cost optimization at scale.
• Experience providing hands-on technical guidance or consultation across multiple teams.
• Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or Statistics.

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize complex analytical SQL and workloads, including joins, transformations, and scheduled queries, to improve performance, reliability, and compute efficiency.
• Improve infrastructure efficiency across workflows, datasets, storage, and compute, and automate recurring operational work such as scheduled workloads, monitoring, and alerts.
• Improve development and DevOps practices for Analytics code and workflows, including source control, job scheduling, configuration, deployment, and operational monitoring.
• Provide hands-on technical consultation across code, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration, helping Analytics teams diagnose issues and improve their code and workflows without taking ownership of their code or workstreams.
• Independently own technical initiatives and work with Analytics, platform, and infrastructure partners to drive solutions from investigation through implementation and ongoing improvement.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefits for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.

What This Job Offers

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