Data Engineer Principal: Lead Scalable Pipelines

FedEx Logistics; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

FedEx Logistics in Plano, TX is seeking a Data Engineer Principal for a hybrid role. You will lead enterprise data engineering initiatives, shaping standards and scalable pipelines with IT, business, software engineers and data scientists.

You will mentor engineers, review code, oversee big data deployments, and drive performance improvements while balancing delivery and innovation in a fast-paced logistics environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or quantitative discipline.
• Seven (7) years of data engineering and analytics experience.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary project teams.

Responsibilities

• Own critical data engineering initiatives end-to-end.
• Advance data engineering capabilities with modern tools and methods.
• Champion reusable data engineering assets.
• Disseminate latest methods for large-scale data problems.
• Oversee design, build, test and maintenance of data pipelines.
• Lead batch processing and optimize data ecosystems.
• Implement parsers, validators, transformers and correlators.
• Mentor junior data engineers and advise teams.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or quantitative discipline

Job description

FedEx Logistics in Plano, TX is seeking a Data Engineer Principal for a hybrid role. You will lead enterprise data engineering initiatives, shaping standards and scalable pipelines with IT, business, software engineers and data scientists.

You will mentor engineers, review code, oversee big data deployments, and drive performance improvements while balancing delivery and innovation in a fast-paced logistics environment.