Senior Data Analyst (last Mile Delivery- Spark Platform)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Data Analyst role focused on Last Mile Delivery operations, analyzing data to improve OTD rate and reduce cancellations. Responsibilities include data analysis, reporting, real-time monitoring, building decision support models, and dashboard development using tools like SQL and Tableau. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive operational improvements and ensure delivery quality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyze large datasets to identify performance trends, root cause analyses, and operational insights. Generate recurring and ad-hoc reports to inform strategic decisions and daily execution.
  2. Monitor real-time metrics and support incident response by identifying issues, escalating critical items, and partnering cross-functionally to drive resolution and communication.
  3. Build and maintain models (e.g., forecast, capacity, or scenario planning) that support operational and business decisions, using tools such as SQL, Tableau, or Excel.
  4. Design, build, and maintain dashboards that communicate performance clearly to business stakeholders, using tools such as Tableau
  5. Partner closely with operations managers, product teams, and field stakeholders to translate insights into coordinated actions. Act as the data lead during live events, helping drive decisions that ensure delivery quality and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL queries
  • building business intelligence reports using Tableau or Power BI
  • define requirements
  • work with large datasets
  • use data and metrics to generate meaningful business insights
  • comfortable working in a fast-paced, real-time environment
  • able to quickly adapt to changing priorities and support incident response with data
  • making data-driven business recommendations
  • influencing cross-functional stakeholders across operations, product, and leadership teams
  • Effective communicator who can clearly explain analysis and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 2 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 OR 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field

Nice to have

  • Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field
  • Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
  • 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)