As a Principal Data Analyst, you will be an integral member of our dynamic team, playing a pivotal role in the company’s success. You will be part of the Associates Analytics team, dedicated to creating scalable solutions and delivering insightful analyses to business leaders and partners. Our goal is to facilitate data-driven decisions through innovative analytics solutions. Your role will be instrumental in furthering this vision, helping to equip our organization with the tools and insights necessary for success.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape our data strategy’s future, promoting the use of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and execute solutions that not only cater to current needs but also foresee future challenges and opportunities. This role provides an opportunity for growth within a progressive team that values creativity, collaboration, and excellence. We are heavily invested in your professional development and provide a clear trajectory for career advancement, making this an ideal position for someone looking to make a significant impact and grow with the company.

What you’ll bring… 

• You have a passion for data and driving the data strategy forward to make an impact to the business.
• You have experience in Data and Analytics with a strong preference for People Analytics, with a demonstrated ability to manage, interpret, and draw insights from large data sets.
• You have 5-6  years’ hands-on experience working with Power BI and its related Microsoft tech stack.
• You have strong experience in SQL and ETL tools such as Alteryx, Dataiku or Tableau Prep.
• You have a passion for creating visually appealing and user-friendly dashboards that effectively communicate insights from large datasets.
• You are driven by the opportunity to use data to enhance the associate experience and drive business outcomes.
• You excel at managing stakeholder expectations, prioritizing requests, and scoping projects to deliver high-impact reporting solutions.

What you’ll do…

• Data Source Identification: Supporting the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Helping identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose and carrying out preliminary quality assessments on the data collected.
• Data Strategy: Understanding, articulating, and applying principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function.
• Understanding Business Context: Requires Knowledge of industry and environmental factors, common business language, and business practices across areas like product, finance, marketing, sales, technology, business systems, and human resources. Providing advice to business stakeholders to address complex business issues. Translating business needs into projects, activities, and tasks and aligning them with the overall business strategy. Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results. Identifying and recommending relevant business insights related to their area of work.
• Tech. Problem Formulation: Requires knowledge of Analytics/big data analytics / automation techniques and methods; Translating business problems into data-related or mathematical solutions; Identifying the right methods/tools for problem-solving. Share use cases and examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem.
• Data Visualization: Generating appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes. Understanding customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets. Designing and building analytics products, and facilitating their delivery through our business intelligence, visualization, and analytics platforms. Presenting to and influencing the team and business audience using the appropriate frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding.
• Driving Business Solutions: Providing and supporting the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Compliance: Modeling compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years’ experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 2: Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years’ experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 3: 6 years’ experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• 6 years’ experience in data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field.
• 4 years’ related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce).
• Successful completion of assessments in Data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau).

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Benefits & Perks

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.