Director, Data Analytics

905 Customer Dr
Bentonville, AR

R-2692085

$110,000 - $220,000/yr

Regular/ Permanent

Lead the analytics practice that changes how Walmart’s audit teams work. As Director, Data Analytics, you’ll turn data, automation and emerging technology into products that sharpen audit coverage, surface risk sooner and deliver results the business can measure. You’ll partner with audit teams across the organization to spark new ways of working, share what you learn and scale what works, all while leading a team in a space that never stands still.

It’s an opportunity to pair deep analytical expertise with a product mindset and inspirational leadership at Walmart’s scale.

About the Team:

We’re an innovation-minded analytics team working alongside audit teams, business partners and technology functions. We treat analytics as products: we find the right problems, ship solutions people actually use, and measure the difference they make. We share what we build and what we learn, from reusable methods to new tools, so every audit team can move faster and see further. Our work supports trusted, accessible and responsible use of data, and we adapt quickly as risks, technology and priorities change.

• Drive innovation in how audit works:
  Spot opportunities to apply analytics, automation and emerging technology to audit planning, risk assessment, testing and reporting. Question long-standing assumptions, prototype quickly and turn the best ideas into solutions with clear success criteria, metrics and measurable return on investment.

• Engage audit teams and drive change:
  Partner with audit teams across the organization to understand how they work, co-design solutions that fit and lead the adoption that makes change stick. Influence stakeholders at every level and turn early wins into new ways of working.
• Share knowledge and raise the bar:
  Introduce new tools, methods and ideas to audit teams, and share what you learn through playbooks, demos, communities of practice and mentoring. Make good analytical practice easy for others to adopt, adapt and build on.

• Run analytics like a product:
  Own a roadmap that connects audit priorities to analytics and technology delivery. Define the customer, the problem and the outcome; prioritize ruthlessly; assess costs and resource needs; deliver in increments; and report on adoption, quality, time saved and risk insight gained.

• Drive technology governance and enterprise compliance:
  Ensure analytics products, AI solutions, and automation initiatives align with Walmart’s enterprise technology, security, and governance requirements. Lead and coordinate internal review and approval processes, including Solution Security Plan (SSP), Enterprise Privacy Risk Assessment (EPRA) and other applicable reviews for deployed solutions. Partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Technology teams to identify risks, address requirements, and obtain necessary approvals before deployment, ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, and scalable.

• Find the signal and tell the story:
  Identify fit-for-purpose data across existing systems and distributed data stores, perform data quality checks, and use exploratory analysis, statistical methods and models to test hypotheses and surface insight. Select the right visualization tools and build clear, compelling stories for analysts, audit leaders and executives, partnering with user experience designers and engineers when front-end applications are needed.

• Advance data strategy, quality and responsible use:
  Apply and influence data strategy across audit and business domains. Define data quality rules, metrics and service-level strategies, recommend improvements to data governance policies and practices, manage user…