Senior Data Scientist( Store No8 | Health & Wellness

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, R Programming, SPARK Programming

Job Description

We are the incubation arm of Walmart. Store no8 was formed in 2017 as part of Walmart’s larger innovation mission to shape the future of commerce. We pursue big ideas and take risks by stepping outside of Walmart’s core business to focus on leapfrog capabilities across conversational commerce, mixed reality, in-store digitization, and more. Our ultimate goal: fuel Walmart’s core business, create new operational efficiencies, and unlock amazing experiences for our customers in the long-term.

This team within Store Nº8 is working on healthcare innovations because Walmart’s promise is to help its customers save money and live better. This includes building products that enhance both their physical and emotional wellbeing.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Scientist for one of our Store Nº8’s portfolio companies, your focus will be finding trends in data sets and developing next-generation algorithms to make the data useful for projects within our incubator. Reporting directly to the Head of Health Data Science, you will partner with data engineering, product, Health & Wellness, store operations, and legal teams. You will need to be a self-starter with bias for action and excellent communication skills.

This is a rare opportunity, moving at the speed of a startup, with the backing and in house data (lots of data) of the Fortune 1 company. You will bridge the art of what’s possible across today’s rapidly evolving healthcare data and informatics landscape.

What You’ll Do

• Join a newly created team as one of the early data scientists and have a significant opportunity to make an impact by prototyping next-generation data products in the health and wellness space.
• Uncover insights for clinicians, care givers and patients to optimize their care journey and improve health outcomes.
• Lead discovery phases integrating with multiple internal systems and teams to ingest data and identify new ideas in the space.
• Analyze complex data elements and develop data models that are easily digestible to help the team make best decisions based off the data.
• Write code, create test cases, and proof of concepts. Translate business problems to data related mathematical solutions.

What You’ll Need

• 6+ years experience in data science, machine learning or similar.
• Significant programing experience (Python, Spark, Scala).
• Experience with agile software development life cycles.
• Extensive experience with machine learning tools (Scikit learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data structures.
• Practical experience with cloud services (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure).
• Experience building data products.
• Thrives in fast-paced start-up environment, including balancing multiple projects and dealing with ambiguity.

A plus if you also have

• Experience with health care data (claims, EMR) and its regulations.
• Contribution to external open-source projects.
• Agile experience with emphasis on rapid prototyping.
• Understanding of container technologies like Kubernetes

Perks and Benefits

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Option 1- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3
years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 years' experience in an 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.

Data science, machine learning, optimization models, Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)

Primary Location...

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