Data Engineer Lead

About FedEx Dataworks:

Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges...

We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by:
? Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems
? Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight
? Building and iterating on solutions that generate value
? Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance
? At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone.

Summary:

The Data Engineer Lead plays a pivotal role within Dataworks, focused on creating and driving engineering innovation within Dataworks, helping define and build the Dataworks organization and facilitate the delivery of key business initiatives. S/he acts as a ?universal translator? between IT, business, software engineers and data scientists, collaborating with these multi-disciplinary teams. The Data Engineer Lead will contribute to the creation of and adherence to technical standards for data engineering, including the selection and refinements of foundational technical components. S/he will work on those aspects of the Dataworks platform that govern the ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, both to end users within FedEx and into data products and services that may be externally facing. Day-to-day, s/he will be deeply involved in code reviews and large-scale deployments.

Responsibilities

Under minimal supervision, supports the design, build, test and maintain data pipelines at big data scale. Assists with updating data from multiple data sources. Other functionalities under close supervision is to work on batch processing of collected data and match its format to the stored data, make sure that the data is ready to be processed and analyzed. Assists with keeping the ecosystem and the pipeline optimized and efficient, troubleshooting standard performance, data related problems and provide L3 support. Independently implements parsers, validators, transformers and correlators to reformat, update and enhance the data. Provides recommendations to highly complex problems. Provides guidance to those in less senior positions.
? Understanding in depth both business and technical problems Dataworks aims to solve
? Building tools, platforms and pipelines to enable teams to clearly and cleanly analyze data, build models and drive decisions
? Scaling up from ?laptop-scale? to ?cluster scale? problems, in terms of both infrastructure and problem structure and technique
? Delivering tangible value very rapidly, collaborating with diverse teams of varying backgrounds and disciplines
? Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases

Skills/Requirements
? Demonstrated expertise working with some of the following common languages and tools:
? Flink, Kubernetes, and Databricks
? Spark, Kafka and other high-volume data tools
? Python
? SQL and NoSQL
? Fluency with large-scale data engineering efforts in cloud environments (like Microsoft Azure)
? A compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions
? Direct experience having built and deployed robust, complex production systems
? Ability to context-switch, to provide support to dispersed teams to unblock challenging technical obstacles
? An ?engineering? mindset, willing to make rapid, pragmatic decisions to improve performance, accelerate progress or magnify impact
? Comfortable working with distributed teams on code-based deliverables, using version control systems and code reviews.
? Experience in Agile and Devops

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor?s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics or Engineering and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Five to Seven (5 - 7) years equivalent work experience in measurement and analysis, quantitative business problem solving, simulation development and/or predictive analytics. Extensive knowledge in data engineering and machine learning frameworks including design, development and implementation of highly complex systems and data pipelines. Extensive knowledge in Information Systems including design, development and implementation of large batch or online transaction-based systems. Strong understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Domicile Information

Domicile/Relocation Information: This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business needs.

Pay: Annual Range: $10,767 ? 13,458 (Monthly)

Domicile?nformation: This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business needs.

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Pay Transparency: ?This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current? ?starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors? ?permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.?

Pay: ?Annual Range - $129,200 - $193,800?

Additional Details: ?Application Criteria: Upload current copy of your resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by 5 PM CT on November 7, 2024.?

EEO information:

FedEx Dataworks is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact DataworksTalentAcquisition@corp.ds.fedex.com

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