Principal Data Engineer

FedEx

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Location
Plano, TX
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9 days ago
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FedEx is a US-based multinational delivery services company providing express shipping, freight, logistics, and e-commerce solutions worldwide.

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TL;DR · Principal Data Engineer

The Data Engineer Principal plays a pivotal role within FEC, providing dynamic leadership and driving engineering innovation at the enterprise level. This individual acts as a universal translator between IT, business units, software engineers, and data scientists while championing technical standards for data engineering components. Day-to-day responsibilities include performing code reviews, overseeing large-scale deployments, mentoring junior engineers, and managing the ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets for internal and external use. The role involves designing and maintaining big data pipelines, implementing parsers, validators, and transformers to reformat complex data. Key technical competencies include CI/CD, statistics, machine learning frameworks, and experience with large batch or online transaction-based systems. This position addresses the challenge of managing extremely large scale and complex data engineering problems within the transportation industry.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

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What you'll do

  • Oversee the design, build, test, and maintenance of data pipelines at big data scale.
  • Manage the ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of internal and external-facing data assets.
  • Implement parsers, validators, transformers, and correlators to reformat and enhance complex data.
  • Establish and enforce technical standards for data engineering components and reusable assets.
  • Lead batch processing of collected data to ensure it is ready for analysis and optimized for performance.
  • Provide expert guidance on complex data problems by integrating CI/CD, statistics, and machine learning practices.
  • Conduct code reviews and oversee large-scale deployments for the FEC platform.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to less senior team members.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline.
  • A related PhD is preferred.
  • Seven years of experience in measurement and analysis, quantitative business problem solving, simulation development, and/or predictive analytics.
  • Extensive knowledge in data engineering and machine learning frameworks for complex systems and pipelines.
  • Extensive knowledge in Information Systems including large batch or online transaction-based systems.
  • Experience providing expert leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
  • Experience as a leader or senior member of multi-functional project teams.
  • Strong understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies.

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