Data Engineer III

About the role

What you'll do

Position: Data Engineer III 

Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716 

Duties: Identifies possible options to address the business problems within one's discipline through analytics, big data analytics, and automation. Supports the development of business cases and recommendations. Owns delivery of project activity and tasks assigned by others. Supports process updates and changes. Solves business issues. Supports the documentation of data governance processes. Supports the implementation of data governance practices. Understands, articulates, and applies principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Extracts data from identified databases. Creates data pipelines and transform data to a structure that is relevant to the problem by selecting appropriate techniques. Develops knowledge of current data science and analytics trends. Supports the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Helps identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Performs initial data quality checks on extracted data. Analyzes complex data elements, systems, data flows, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual, physical, and logical data models. Develops the Logical Data Model and Physical Data Models including data warehouse and data mart designs. Defines relational tables, primary and foreign keys, and stored procedures to create a data model structure. Evaluates existing data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies. Develops efficient data flows. Analyzes data-related system integration challenges and proposes appropriate solutions. Creates training documentation and trains end-users on data modeling. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports. Writes code to develop the required solution and application features by determining the appropriate programming language and leveraging business, technical, and data requirements. Creates test cases to review and validate the proposed solution design. Creates proofs of concept. Tests the code using the appropriate testing approach. Deploys software to production servers. Contributes code documentation, maintains playbooks, and provides timely progress updates. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. 

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science or related field; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science or related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related field. 

Skills Required: Must have experience with: Designing and developing dataflows in Google Cloud Platform; Coding in programming language in Scala and object-oriented programming in Python; Designing and developing data warehouse in BigQuery; Developing data pipelines and analyzing Adhoc request with Apache Spark and PySpark; Designing and developing SQL like querying and Data pipeline on Google bucket with Apache Hive; Code commit and version controlling in Git and Code deployment in Looper with CI/CD; Developing Shell Scripts to Automate jobs; Developing real time data streaming with Apache Kafka; Retrieving relevant data and analysis with Data Discovery; Developing data ingestion pipelines with Sqoop; and Designing and testing Relation database management system in BigQuery and MySQL. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills. 

Rate of pay:     $109,699.00 - 180,000.00/year.  Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.    

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.   

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.  

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.