Principal Data Engineer & Lakehouse Architect

FedEx Corporation; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead the architectural design of enterprise data pipelines, lakehouse strategies, and governance across its global logistics network. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, guiding multi-disciplinary squads to deliver scalable data platforms.

You will shape batch and streaming pipelines, implement best-in-class DataOps, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with product, security, and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, CS, or related field.
• 7+ years in data engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience with enterprise data lakehouse and big data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering architecture and design reviews.
• Develop scalable pipelines and lakehouse blueprints.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate with enterprise stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed computing

Apache Spark

Kafka

dbt

Airflow

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/CS

Tools

Google Cloud Dataproc

Databricks

Google Cloud Composer

Terraform

Git

Python

Job description

FedEx Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead the architectural design of enterprise data pipelines, lakehouse strategies, and governance across its global logistics network. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, guiding multi-disciplinary squads to deliver scalable data platforms.

You will shape batch and streaming pipelines, implement best-in-class DataOps, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with product, security, and analytics teams.