Senior Manager, Data Engineering- Walmart Energy

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Walmart Energy’s mission is to deliver an affordable, reliable, and clean energy future for our company and the communities we serve. As one of the world’s largest electricity consumers, Walmart faces rising electricity demand, increasing grid constraints, and long-term exposure to energy cost volatility. We are looking for a Sr Manager, Data Engineering to sit on the business team within the Energy Digital Transformation organization. In this high-impact role, you will partner with another data engineer to co-own and lead the technical direction of the Energy Analytics data ecosystem. You will design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that enables advanced analytics, operational decision-making, and critical reporting for the Energy organization. This role requires advanced engineering expertise, enterprise systems knowledge, and the ability to independently architect solutions that support critical business processes while maintaining strict security and governance frameworks.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing, building, and operating scalable, production-grade data pipelines and data platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, PySpark, relational databases, orchestration tools, and data processing frameworks.
• Experience working with GCP and enterprise data environments, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and storage design.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and deployment practices for data workloads.
• Strong understanding of data quality, observability, lineage, metadata, governance, and security controls in enterprise environments.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into scalable data engineering solutions and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset, including experience leading production support, root-cause analysis, and durable engineering improvements.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where the role bridges business priorities and technical execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field, OR 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related field, OR Master's degree in Computer Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
• 4 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
• 1 year’s supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field
• Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable data ingestion, transformation, and processing frameworks to drive major department initiatives, including Real-Time Energy Insights, Bill Anomaly Detection, Tariff Optimization and much more.
• Maintain and optimize GCP and SQL Server environments to increase stability and reduce compute/storage costs.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and establish operational playbooks to streamline testing and deployment.
• Create and maintain comprehensive data dictionaries, lineage documentation, pipeline specifications, and SLA definitions.
• Update SSP documentation for Element and GCP environments to meet enterprise security and audit requirements.
• Design and enforce validation rules, schema evolution checks, and automated data profiling to ensure critical datasets remain reliable and well-governed.
• Monitor production pipelines, lead incident response, and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Build automation for repeatable processes to reduce manual overhead and improve system uptime.
• Build cloud-native and on-premise solutions using distributed compute engines (GCP, PySpark, custom Python frameworks) and manage orchestration tools like Airflow (via Walmart’s Element platform) and SQL Server-based schedulers.
• Partner closely with business and analytics teams to translate complex business needs into scalable technical models.
• Evaluate new technologies, conduct POCs, and help shape the long-term architecture of Energy Analytics.

Benefits

• 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
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

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