Position Summary...

The Senior Director for Data Ventures Data Globalization, leads the strategic design and globalization of our data ecosystem to drive high-value commercial insights. You will be responsible for architecting scalable, secure, and compliant data structures that harmonize disparate data sets across our multiple business units (International, Sam’s Club, Walmart US, and Growth) into a unified global framework. By partnering with cross-functional business, product, and engineering teams, you will ensure our data assets support advanced analytics and external monetization strategies across diverse geographic markets. In addition to globalization efforts, this leader will assist with the integration of Generative AI and agentic workflows into the core data architecture to accelerate insight discovery. You will design "agent-ready" data environments that allow autonomous AI agents to navigate, interpret, and action global datasets with high precision. This role requires a visionary leader capable of navigating complex business operations, numerous stakeholders across the enterprise, and data sovereignty laws while maintaining a high-performance infrastructure. Ultimately, your work will enable the Data Ventures team to deliver seamless, data-driven products that scale globally and maintain a competitive edge.

What you'll do...

• Architect the global canonical data model that unifies operational, omni-transaction, identity, and supplier-facing data across Walmart US, Sam’s Club, International markets, and Growth.
• Lead global data harmonization, reducing local-market variation and creating scalable frameworks that power the next generation of Scintilla.
• Oversee the evolution of DV’s enterprise data model.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to modernize global data pipelines, improve performance, and meet availability SLAs required for global Scintilla adoption.
• Translate complex business needs into data strategies, roadmaps, and architectures that unlock commercial value.
• Influence cross-functional leaders across the Enterprise to align on global data standards and priorities.

What you'll bring...

• Leadership experience in global data architecture, enterprise data strategy, large‑scale analytics, or complex multi‑market data environments.
• Proven success designing and governing global, harmonized, compliant data ecosystems, including data sovereignty, privacy, and retention.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable global data strategies with clear ROI, roadmap alignment, and measurable commercial impact.
• Experience leveraging enterprise data for monetization, partnering with cross-functional teams to develop new revenue streams and build data‑driven product strategies.
• Experience developing and deploying Generative AI and agentic capabilities on extremely complex retail datasets, including vectorized metadata, semantic layers, and AI‑ready data architectures.
• Strong track record building trusted internal relationships with cross‑segment business partners, providing consulting, data architecture guidance, and adoption support across the product development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Enterprise Architecture teams to design reusable patterns, blueprints, and standards deployed across multiple business units and geographies.
• Customer‑centric mindset with expertise in design thinking, journey mapping, dependency mapping, process optimization, and influencing techniques to uncover unmet customer and supplier needs.
• Strong analytical and operational rigor; ability to evaluate global performance by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data quality metrics, pipeline indicators, architectural KPIs, and operational trends.
• Experience creating intellectual property assets, including frameworks, tooling approaches, operating models, and methodologies that scale across teams and markets.
• Executive‑level communication and storytelling skills with the ability to shape narratives for senior leadership, influence priority decisions, and align stakeholders on the most critical global data work.
• Demonstrated success leading globally distributed teams, developing high‑performing data architects, modelers, and governance specialists, and building strong cross‑functional influence.
• Strong understanding of identity systems, omni‑transactional retail data, supplier‑facing analytics, and enterprise data governance frameworks.

About the team Walmart Data Ventures (DV) powers Scintilla and the enterprise insights ecosystem that delivers insights to suppliers, merchants, and internal business teams to make more effective decisions. As we accelerate international expansion and unify our data across Walmart US, Sam’s Club, International markets, and Growth businesses, the need for a globally consistent and AI‑ready data foundation has never been greater. 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-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 $160,000.00 - $320,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 7 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business
intelligence, business analytics or related field. Option 2: 9 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business intelligence,
business analytics or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 5 years' experience in data engineering, solution
architecture, business intelligence, business analytics or related field.
3 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data architecture/software architecture/data modeling, Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 7 years' experience in software engineering, Relevant industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare, etc.), Solution Architecture, Supervisory experience, 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.

Primary Location...

1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.