Principal Data Engineer — Enterprise Data Leader

Federal Express Corporation; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise-scale data initiatives, define standards, and act as a bridge between IT, business, data science, and engineering teams. You will oversee ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, and mentor junior engineers while driving large-scale deployments.

The hybrid Plano, TX role requires strong leadership and deep data engineering expertise to deliver cutting-edge data products for FedEx.

Qualifications

• Seven years of data engineering, analytics, or related experience.
• Experience leading data pipelines and large-scale deployments.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering, ML practices, and CI/CD.
• Experience communicating to senior stakeholders.
• PhD may offset experience requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own data engineering initiatives end-to-end.
• Advance data engineering capabilities and reusable assets.
• Design, build, test, and maintain data pipelines at big data scale.
• Lead batch processing and optimize data ecosystems.
• Mentor junior engineers and advise teams.

Skills

Data engineering

ML concepts

CI/CD

Leadership

Big data tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise-scale data initiatives, define standards, and act as a bridge between IT, business, data science, and engineering teams. You will oversee ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, and mentor junior engineers while driving large-scale deployments.

The hybrid Plano, TX role requires strong leadership and deep data engineering expertise to deliver cutting-edge data products for FedEx.