Principal Data Engineer: Platform & Data Pipelines Lead

FedEx Corporation; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 112,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Dataworks in Plano, TX seeks a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise data engineering initiatives, shaping standards, and guiding cross-functional teams including IT, software engineers, and data scientists.

The role focuses on ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, with end-to-end ownership of critical projects, mentorship, and ongoing adoption of cutting-edge data technologies within Dataworks.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years of data engineering and analytics experience.
• Experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and data models.
• Lead data ingestion, transformation, and validation processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineers.
• Ensure data governance and security compliance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Data pipelines

Python (data tools)

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent

PhD preferred

Tools

DataBricks

BigQuery

GCP

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

FedEx Dataworks in Plano, TX seeks a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise data engineering initiatives, shaping standards, and guiding cross-functional teams including IT, software engineers, and data scientists.

The role focuses on ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, with end-to-end ownership of critical projects, mentorship, and ongoing adoption of cutting-edge data technologies within Dataworks.