Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates.
Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager, Data Science at IDC for the Corporate Affairs Technology team. As a leader specializing in GenAI and Agentic AI, you will lead the development and deployment of AI/ML driven products; leading a team of Data scientists and ML engineers and collaborate with product leaders to drive innovation.
About Team:
The Enterprise Business Services supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology, Finance and Risk Technologies across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. Walmart Global Tech s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes technology solutions for Corporate Affairs, Transaction Risk Technology, Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience .
What you will do:
We are looking for a Senior Manager, AI/ML who has the passion to lead a team developing AI driven intelligent products for the Corporate Affairs domain, with the ability to influence partner teams, data scientists, ML engineers, product managers and software developers. A successful candidate will have an established hands-on data science, AI, ML experience in driving technical products, an entrepreneurial background, and a passion for great customer-centric products.
You would :
- Lead a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and software engineers to design, architect, build AI/ML models and systems, and deploy, operate and optimize the solutions
- Lead development of end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML and data intensive applications
- Manage and mentor team of data scientists to develop their skills and business understanding
- Drive Agile practice in a highly collaborative environment with a multidisciplinary team.
- Develop and deploy production-grade real-time/batch machine learning services
- Work with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyze user telemetry
- Identify or propose AI/ML use-cases to business teams to improve business processes and develop quick MVPs/ POCs to help stakeholders make better decisions
- Uphold and enforce rigorous standards, governance, and best practices, ensuring strict compliance with model and data governance standards.
- Adhere strictly to Walmart s policies, procedures, mission, values, standards of ethics, and integrity .
- Innovation and Research: Stay at the forefront of technological advancements, conducting research to identify emerging tools and methodologies.
- Collaborative Communication: Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, promoting a culture of open communication and collaboration.
What youll bring:
- You have 10+ years experience in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable, robust, and user-centric GenAI /AI /ML products and applications
- You have a bachelors/masters degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, statistics, economics, mathematics, or related area
- You have excellent industry experience in production-grade AI/ML system development with major technology companies or AI-native start-ups.
- You can effectively manage and coach junior data scientists
- You can communicate internally and externally through publications, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.
- You have extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g. Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- You have experience in building deep learning applications, neural network deployment optimizations and architecting ML systems
- You have experience in developing chatbots/ NLP/ recommendation-engine systems
- You have experience at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python
- You have experience in working with end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
- You are thorough, meticulous and detail oriented
- You believe in the importance of establishing work standards and leveraging automations
- You have a history of collaboration, openness, honesty, timely decision making, and clear communication in both verbal and written forms
- You embrace lifelong learning - always learning new technologies and techniques. You are also engaged in the open-source communities to both find answers and help others.