Data Scientist

Federal Express Corporation; Memphis (TN); Híbrido; USD 95.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Federal Express Corporation is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join a collaborative team in Memphis. You will apply statistical methods and machine learning to large datasets, develop predictive models, and build dashboards that clearly communicate insights to business partners.

You will work with data from multiple sources, ensure data quality, and partner with IT and business teams to drive data-driven improvements across product development and strategy.

Formación

• Bachelor's in data science, CS, applied mathematics, data analytics, statistics, industrial engineering, or related quantitative field.
• 0–3 years relevant experience; proficiency in at least one programming language and one visualization tool.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, R, Java, or similar; proficiency in visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire, etc.
• Experience in data mining, developing/statistical models, ML models, and data visualization.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Responsabilidades

• Perform advanced analytics, including ML, statistics, hypothesis testing on large datasets.
• Develop and deploy analytical and ML models with ML Ops understanding.
• Analyze and interpret data to identify trends and insights for business problems.
• Design and implement dashboards and visualizations to track key metrics.
• Collaborate with business partners to define questions and experiments and communicate results.

Conocimientos

Programming languages

Data visualization

Analytics & ML

Communication

Educación

Bachelor's degree in data science / CS / math / analytics

Herramientas

SQL

Python

R

Tableau

Power BI

Spotfire

Descripción del empleo

Works as part of a team to employ scientific methods and data-discovery tools to find new patterns, insights, and relationships in big data; extract meaningful information from multiple large data sets and develop solutions that quickly and visually communicate results. Participates and collaborates in discussions across business and IT teams to understand data product needs. Analyzes data from various databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development and business strategies. Independently works on analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends, insights, and logical data driven solutions for business problems. Develops analytical models and algorithms which apply data to identify business improvement insights and inform the development of processes and tools (e.g. dashboards, other visualizations) for monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating analytical model performance. Ensures accuracy and quality of data, including reconciliation from disparate sources. Partners with other team members to collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and other functional teams. Works alongside other data scientists to understand business questions, identify opportunities to leverage data to drive business solutions, implement models, and monitor outcomes.

Essential Functions

• Works as part of a team to perform advanced analytics, including predictive Machine Learning (classification and regression, supervised and unsupervised modeling), inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, and qualitative analysis on large data sets that include both structured and unstructured data to develop crucial business insights and communicate to the business in an understandable way.
• Work as part of a team to develop and deploy analytical and machine learning models (with general understanding of data engineering and ML Ops)
• Independently works on analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends, insights, and logical data driven solutions for business problems.
• Develops analytical models and algorithms which apply data to identify business improvement insights and inform the development of processes and tools (e.g. dashboards, other visualizations)
• Designs and implements reporting dashboards and other visualizations that track and visually communicate key business metrics and provide actionable insights
• Participates in design sessions to implement experiments to answer targeted questions and solves known issues by actively engaging with business partners to understand key business challenges.
• Learn and become fluent working with and understand FedEx data
• Identifies internal and external information sources, builds effective working relationships with subject matter experts within FedEx and the external marketplace.
• Assists with knowledge transfer and training of business intelligence to the FedEx team as a subject matter expert; strongly influences the team by developing, institutionalizing and maintaining a data-driven analysis culture.
• Analyzes data from various databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development and business strategies.
• Ensures accuracy and quality of data, including reconciliation from disparate sources.
• Peforms other duties as assigned

Minimum Education

Bachelor's in data science, computer science, applied mathematics, data analytics, statistics, industrial engineering, or related quantitative field.

Minimum Experience

Zero (0) to three (3) years relevant experience required. Skills can be gained concurrently with education. Proficiency required in at least one programming language, such as (SQL, Python, R, Java, or similar language) and one visualization tool/package such as (Spotfire, Tableau, Power BI, ShinyApp, Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn or similar tool) required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Proficient in at least one programming language, such as (SQL, Python, R, Java, etc.). Proficient in one visualization tools/packages, such as (Spotfire, Tableau, Power BI, ShinyApp, Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn). Exposure to relational database platforms, such as Teradata and Oracle. Experience in data mining, developing/implementing statistical models, machine learning models, algorithms, or visualizing data. Experience with statistical programming languages such as R, Python, SQL, and SAS required.

Exposure to Machine Learning modeling, including scripting and Machine Learning libraries in R, Python, or similar. Exposure with Cloud platforms, including storage, querying, and advanced analytics (Azure, GCP, AWS). Understanding of statistics with exposure to linear algebra. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common technical journals, reports, and related documents. Exposure to data modeling, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) concepts, query performance tuning and testing. Exposure to large datasets and the management of large data Experience data modeling, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) concepts, query performance tuning and testing is a plus. Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau or Spotfire is a plus.

Ability to effectively present information to management, end users, co-workers, or vendors. Strong problem-solving skills. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work on multiple projects and work as part of a team.

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Additional Details: This is a hybrid position located in Memphis, TN. Candidates must live within 50 miles of the campus location. Employees will be required to work at the FedEx campus location several times per week. Posting closes on: 11/2/2026 at 4:00 PM CST/5:00 PM EST.

Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact .

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• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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