# Principal Data Analyst - Transportation Strategy & Optimization

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary Weare looking for someone with a strong operational mindset who can quickly understand complex business processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and lead ambiguous problems from investigation through implementation. You will build strong business relationships, challenge assumptions, use data and AI to shape strategy, and influence operational decisions and change. Success requires exceptional critical thinking, business judgment, technical and analytical leadership, structured problem solving, and influence across teams and senior leadership. Whether your background is in operations, supply chain, process improvement, strategy, or analytics, you must be able to develop and defend data-driven recommendations and turn them into measurable business outcomes. About the team: Our team sits at the intersection of operations, analytics, technology, and transformation. We work on problems where: the question may not be clearly defined, understanding operational processes is essential, the data may not tell the full story, stakeholders may see the problem differently, decisions involve tradeoffs across cost, service, and executio

- **Id**: 3885157
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-principal-data-analyst-transportation-strategy-optimization>
- **Role**: Analytics
- **Role family**: Analytics
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bentonville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:27:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6775
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Retail & Shop Systems, Online Groceries

## Company

- **Id**: 236
- **Name**: Walmart
- **Domain**: walmart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walmart>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 343
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: yes
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Tableau** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:23:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,861 · green card filings: 870; Filings 12m: 2861

## Liveness

- **Score**: 46
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.839
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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