(can) Manager, Data Analytics (ic)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Mississauga, ON

Manager, Data Analyst role focused on hands-on analytics, reporting, and insights for priority initiatives within the Canadian Technology Data Engineering team. Responsibilities include translating business needs into analysis, building dashboards, identifying and evaluating data sources, ensuring data quality, and supporting initiative execution. Requires strong SQL and proficiency in Python/R.

What you'd actually do

  1. Translate business questions into analytic requirements, data pulls, and repeatable reporting outputs.
  2. Perform exploratory analysis and produce clear, decision‑ready insights; present findings in business language.
  3. Identify and evaluate data sources; support processes to acquire, join, and validate data from multiple sources.
  4. Partner with Data Engineering to improve dataset usability, documentation, and accessibility for analytics consumption.
  5. Monitor data quality indicators; proactively identify issues, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate fixes with engineering partners.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • analytics
  • reporting
  • data analysis
  • data sourcing
  • data quality
  • retail experience

Nice to have

  • GCP/BigQuery
  • cloud data ecosystems
  • statistical techniques
  • hypothesis testing
  • experiment measurement
  • Generative AI
  • Agentic AI

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience with Generative and Agentic AI