(usa) Senior, Data Analyst

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Data Analyst role focused on transforming complex data into actionable business insights. Responsibilities include identifying data sources, ensuring data quality, translating business problems into analytical approaches, conducting exploratory data analysis, and building visualizations to influence decisions. The role also involves promoting data governance and mentoring junior analysts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify fit-for-purpose data sources across SQL/NoSQL and enterprise systems; perform initial data quality checks.
  2. Translate business problems into analytical approaches, hypotheses, and data-driven solutions.
  3. Conduct exploratory data analysis and statistical testing to uncover trends, outliers, and drivers.
  4. Build advanced visualizations and narratives (e.g., Tableau/Power BI/Python/R) to influence decisions.
  5. Promote data quality and governance practices; mentor junior analysts on storytelling techniques.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • data quality assessment
  • data profiling
  • data cleansing
  • stakeholder needs translation
  • analytical deliverables
  • business cases
  • domain artifacts
  • data visualization
  • communication

Nice to have

  • Python
  • R
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • retail experience
  • merchandising experience
  • ecommerce experience
  • Spark
  • Scala

What the JD emphasized

  • data quality
  • SQL
  • Tableau/Power BI