(USA) Manager, Advanced Analytics

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the team 

Within Walmart Connect, the Platform & Infrastructure Enablement (PIE) team helps Analytics teams make effective use of platforms and infrastructure, optimize technical workflows, automate recurring technical work, and build reusable platforms where common needs can scale across teams. 
Our goal is to help Analytics teams operate and scale efficiently through reliable, scalable and cost-efficient platforms, infrastructure and technical workflows. 
About the Role 
Analytics Infrastructure & DevOps Lead is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on improving the performance, reliability, and efficiency of Analytics code, workflows, and infrastructure. You will partner directly with WMC Analytics teams to diagnose, review, and help improve complex analytical queries and code; resolve technical and operational challenges; automate recurring work; and strengthen development practices. This role requires strong technical judgment and the ability to independently investigate complex problems, implement practical solutions, and drive continuous improvement across Analytics infrastructure and workflows.
Key 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 build automation for 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 the code and workflows they develop 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 

Qualifications 

• Strong hands-on proficiency in SQL, with deep experience in 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, with 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 

• Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose complex technical problems, make sound technical decisions and drive solutions through implementation 

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to structure technical problems clearly, explain findings and recommendations, and work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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 

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

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $104,000.00 - $202,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or related field and 2 years' experience in data analytics or related field OR 4 years'
experience in data analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Certificate in business analytics, data mining, or statistical analysis

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Primary Location...

850 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.