Principal Data Engineer & Lakehouse Architect (Hybrid)

Federal Express Corporation; Memphis (TN); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to drive enterprise data architecture and platform delivery across the organization. You will lead the design of lakehouse architectures, implement scalable ingestion/transformation pipelines, and uphold data governance and security standards.

You will mentor engineers, oversee critical pipelines, and collaborate with product management, cyber security, and BI teams to ensure scalable, reliable data services for FedEx’s global operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, CS, or quantitative field; PhD preferred.
• Seven years or more of data engineering and analytics leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of data lakehouse, ETL, and modern analytics tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural blueprints for petabyte-scale data pipelines.
• Lead data governance, security, and quality initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and perform code & design reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive platform adoption.

Skills

Distributed computing

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, CS, or quantitative field

Tools

Apache Spark

PySpark

Dataproc

dbt

Airflow

Cloud Composer

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

FedEx Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to drive enterprise data architecture and platform delivery across the organization. You will lead the design of lakehouse architectures, implement scalable ingestion/transformation pipelines, and uphold data governance and security standards.

You will mentor engineers, oversee critical pipelines, and collaborate with product management, cyber security, and BI teams to ensure scalable, reliable data services for FedEx’s global operations.