Principal, Data Analyst (sql, Tableau, Ai, Business Fluency)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role is a part of the Decision Sciences, Delivery Data & Analytics team, supporting e-commerce transportation's daily operations. The Principal Data Analyst will help users navigate through billions of data to make timely decisions, working with operations and finance to provide necessary insights. Responsibilities include analyzing large datasets, developing data visualizations, automating reporting tasks with scripting languages, and mentoring peers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with large, messy, disparate datasets and conduct ad-hoc analyses to quickly inform critical business decisions. Create ETLs or processes that pull data from multiple places and centralize it in one table.
  2. Develop data visualization to monitor and quantify the impact of changes and unique business challenges.
  3. Engage with team members and cross-functional teams on a periodic basis and establish credibility. Analyze stakeholder needs and partner with them to share relevant information. This includes partnering with Operations, Finance and Product teams on data accuracy, completeness and latency across multiple operations and systems
  4. Leverage scripting languages (Python preferred) to automate activities made for reporting (Screenshots, metrics prioritization and outlier recognition)
  5. Document your processes and share your knowledge with your peers. Mentor your peers as you become a Subject Matter Expert.

Skills

Required

  • Excellent SQL Skills (6+ years)
  • Tableau Dashboards (3+ years)
  • Leveraging different AI tools to simply tasks
  • Business Operations Fluency
  • Supply Chain background (preferably Last Mile Delivery or Parcel Deliveries)
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally
  • 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 OR 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 OR 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
  • Advanced SQL and Tableau user

Nice to have

  • Experience with ecommerce operations or parcel carrier operations
  • Experience with Python or other scripting language
  • Experience with data manipulation tools such as Python, R, Tableau Prep etc.

What the JD emphasized

  • Excellent SQL Skills. Capability to manipulate data from multiple tables while keeping the data integrity (6+ years)
  • Creativity with a User Experience foundation to develop impactful Tableau Dashboards (3+ years)