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# (USA) Senior, Data Scientist

- **Company:** Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** Hoboken, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $108,000.0 - $216,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Business Logic, Big Data, Information Engineering, Machine Learning, User Defined Functions, Web Applications, Freeform SQL, Data Analytics
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/-usa-senior-data-scientist-hoboken-nj--26d032a5-8c89-451c-96dd-bf71217c6910

## About the Role

* Well balanced skills - You are equally technical and functional . You are comfortable and effective in persuading both technical and business audiences.
 * Data science & analytics expertise - Designing and building new and impactful customer-centric KPIs. Comfortable with writing complex SQL queries, balancing speed with effective code design. Have fundamentals of machine learning techniques (such as regression, clustering algorithms and/or causal inference) along with cohort analyses.
 * Project ownership - Independently executing and overseeing end-to-end projects with a high degree of ambiguity
 * Business acumen - Translating insights into relevant business recommendations
 * Great communicator - Telling the story behind the data to an executive audience

## Description

As a Senior Data Scientist in the team, you will have the unique opportunity to leverage the power of technology, big data and analytics to improve the lives of the 100M+ households that shop at Walmart every year. You will be responsible for driving Walmart's High Value Habits initiatives by identifying the primary accelerators and decelerators of customer loyalty, translating these findings into actionable insights that directly inform high-level business strategy.

About the team:

At Walmart, we pride ourselves for knowing our customers and connecting with them better than any other company. We interact with our customers across more categories than any company in the world. The Customer Decision Science team at Walmart analyzes every store trip, web and app visit, service interaction, search, click, purchase and survey response to help deliver the easiest shopping experience digitally and physically. We are a team of decision science practitioners who work together to uncover the why behind the customer behavior while measuring the outcomes from a customer and competitive lens.

What you''ll do:

 * Lead and execute data science for Walmart's High Value Habits initiatives, focusing on deepening customer loyalty and retention through data-driven strategic planning.
 * Design, build, and deploy sophisticated quantitative frameworks (causal inference, propensity models, cohort analyses)
 * Lead project teams that include Data Engineering, Product, Marketing, Strategy and Finance to ensure data-driven insights are integrated into the product roadmap and financial forecasts.
 * Implementing and scaling best practices. This includes writing/reviewing User Defined Functions (UDFs) to standardize complex business logic
 * Act as a subject matter expert in leadership forums, using data to challenge assumptions and drive a customer-centric culture.