Data Scientist III

Reference: R-2592591Posted: 2026-08-07Location: BENTONVILLE, AR, United StatesSalary: $90000 - $180000/yearType: Full time / Regular/PermanentCompany: Sam's ClubBusiness Segment: Home OfficeJob DescriptionRole summary: Join Walmart as a Data Scientist III and apply advanced analytical modeling, statistical methods, and machine learning techniques to deliver data-driven insights that support strategic business decisions. This role involves developing, validating, and deploying scalable models while ensuring data quality and governance standards. Collaborating across functions, you will translate complex business challenges into analytical solutions, leveraging programming skills and big data analytics. The position requires a strong understanding of data ecosystems, model assessment, and visualization to drive impactful recommendations and support continuous improvement within a dynamic environment. About The Team: At Sam's Club, millions of members trust us to deliver a seamless, high-value shopping experience. Behind this is one of the world's largest commerce ecosystems. As a Data Scientist III on the Demand Forecasting Data Science team, you will transform billions of data points into intelligent machine learning solutions that forecast demand, optimize supply chain efficiency, and ensure product availability. You'll partner with engineers, product managers, and business leaders to drive decisions at scale. If you're energized by solving complex problems and deploying models into production, we want you.Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role What You'll Do: Predict & Model Demand: Design and scale advanced machine learning and time-series models to forecast item-level demand using large-scale transactional datasets.Optimize Supply Chain: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Merchandising to deploy production-ready solutions that improve replenishment and minimize stockouts.Drive Innovation: Leverage Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud platforms to explore new AI/ML workflows, ensuring data integrity and actionable business strategies.What You'll Bring: Education: Bachelor’s in a STEM field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s with 1+ years.Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed computing tools like Spark, Hive, or Big Query.Domain Expertise: Experience with large retail or supply chain datasets, time-series forecasting, and deploying production ML models.Core Capabilities: Strong communication skills to translate complex data into business stories, and a passion for solving ambiguous problems.About Walmart Global Tech:Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.Flexible, hybrid workWe use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.Benefits:Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.Equal Opportunity Employer:Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet! At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see .- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. 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. The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location).Minimum qualifications["Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 years' experience in an analytics or related field."]Preferred qualifications["Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics", "Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)", "Data science, machine learning, optimization models", "Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R", "We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture."]