Job description 

What will you do:

As a Senior Manager, Data Science, for Walmart, you’ll have the opportunity to

Manage a team of Data Scientist and Software Engineers working on Walmart Catalog.

Manage and execute entire projects from start to finish, including cross-functional project management, data collection, analysis and modeling, production deployment, and communicating the results.

Demonstrate strong thought-leadership and consult with product and business stakeholders to build, scale and deploy holistic data science products.

Mentor and guide data scientists in achieving data science outcomes and handle multiple products and initiatives.

Follow industry best practices, stay up to date with and extend the state of the art in machine learning research and practice, drive innovation by contributing towards publications and patents.

Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

What will you bring:

Deep knowledge and hands on experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Solid experience working with state-of-the-art Gen AI, supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms on real-world problems, preferably in ecommerce domain.

Strong coding skills in Python, and hands on experience in using a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. Knowledge of a programming language like Java or C++, and experience with SQL, Hive, or SPARK is a plus.

Strong ability to understand the business, good stakeholder management capabilities, and experience of mentoring data scientists in developing ML solutions.

An ability to initiate, drive, lead to production, communicate the work done, identify and patent/publish the consequent ideas.

Educational Qualifications: PhD with at least 7 years of experience or Master’s degree with at least 10 years of experience, preferably in Computer Science or a related area.