Principal Data Engineer, Platform & Pipelines Leader

FedEx Dataworks; Coraopolis (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Dataworks is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise-grade data engineering initiatives, shaping standards and reusable assets, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams across IT, business, software, and data science domains.

You will own end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and pipelining, mentor engineers, and drive scalable, secure data solutions for FedEx and external data products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• 7+ years of data engineering experience.
• Proven leadership of data engineering projects and teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand business and technical problems Dataworks aims to solve.
• Build tools, platforms and pipelines for data analysis and modeling.
• Scale from laptop-scale to cluster-scale data problems and infrastructure.
• Deliver tangible value rapidly with cross-functional teams.
• Codify best practices into reusable patterns and codebases.
• Collaborate with FedEx leaders and partner ecosystems for deployments.

Skills

Data engineering

Big data pipelines

Cloud environments

Distributed systems

Azure

Machine learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

DataBricks

BigQuery

GCP

Job description

FedEx Dataworks is seeking a Data Engineer Principal to lead enterprise-grade data engineering initiatives, shaping standards and reusable assets, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams across IT, business, software, and data science domains.

You will own end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and pipelining, mentor engineers, and drive scalable, secure data solutions for FedEx and external data products.