Senior Data Analyst

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

11d

About The Position

The Senior Data Analyst analyzes and interprets information for initiative work streams to improve business efficiency, develop creative cost-saving or goal-oriented solutions, assign activities, and ensure data accuracy. The role develops and directs work streams within cross-functional projects, including defining scope, organizing timelines and deliverables, facilitating project meetings, taking corrective action, and reporting results to supervisors and stakeholders. It collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to communicate findings from data analysis and research, and develops decision-support tools and business cases by determining and summarizing relevant information, meeting customer needs, and analyzing business impact. In the absence of the Project Manager III, Innovation, the analyst assumes that role’s duties, including attending meetings, working with project teams on projects and analyses, providing guidance on logistical issues, and prioritizing issues for escalation. The position applies current expertise and best practices to action plans, supports customer and business needs, and builds stakeholder commitment. It also identifies business needs, implements and monitors business solutions, pursues improvement opportunities, adapts to changing demands, and models company policies, values, ethics, and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience in data analytics or a related field; employer will accept any amount of experience with the listed required skills.
Experience performing exploratory time-series data analysis using Python, SQL, and Tableau.
Experience performing feature engineering using Python and SQL to derive insights.
Experience visualizing time-series data for performance analysis using Tableau or Power BI.
Experience writing complex SQL queries, including window functions, procedural language, and common table expressions.
Experience creating forecasting metrics using statistical methods such as SMAPE, BIAS, and MAE.
Experience using SQL to manipulate and prepare input data.
Experience developing data extraction, transformation, and analytics pipelines using PySpark.
Experience using GitHub for collaborative project management and creating pull requests.
Experience building efficient and scalable data pipelines using Python and SQL.
Experience investigating data using machine-learning Python libraries such as Pandas, Scikit Learn, and NumPy.

Responsibilities

Analyze and interpret information for initiative work streams to improve business efficiency, develop solutions that reduce costs or meet business goals, assign activities, and ensure data accuracy.
Develop and direct cross-functional project work streams by clarifying scope, organizing timelines and deliverables, facilitating meetings, taking corrective action, and reporting results to supervisors and stakeholders.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to communicate data analysis and research findings.
Develop decision-support tools and business cases by summarizing required information, determining reporting needs, addressing customer needs, and analyzing business impact.
Assume the duties of Project Manager III, Innovation in that person's absence, including attending meetings, working with project team members on projects and analyses, providing guidance on logistical issues, and prioritizing issues for escalation.
Apply expertise and best practices to develop, execute, and improve action plans; advise others; support customer and business needs; and build commitment for perspectives and rationales.
Build stakeholder relationships, identify business needs, implement and monitor business solutions and processes, recognize improvement opportunities, and adapt to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
Model and support compliance with company policies, procedures, mission, values, and ethics in business planning and execution.