Senior Data Engineer & Lakehouse Architect

FedEx Corporation; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Corporation seeks a Data Engineer Principal to define enterprise data engineering blueprints and lead the lakehouse strategy. You will architect ingestion pipelines, enforce governance, and guide data security across a global logistics data platform.

You’ll mentor engineers and shape the technical roadmap with cross-functional teams. You will work in a hybrid model across multiple FedEx campuses, with responsibility for scalable, fault-tolerant data solutions and production readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline.
• Seven years or equivalent in data engineering, analytics, and large data pipelines.
• Strong leadership and ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams.
• Experience with data lakehouse architectures and cloud platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data engineering blueprints and lakehouse standards.
• Architect high-throughput ingestion pipelines across diverse sources.
• Lead data governance, security controls, and data quality programs.
• Drive DataOps, CI/CD, and production deployment governance.
• Mentor engineers and conduct architectural reviews.

Skills

Distributed computing

Lakehouse design

Data governance

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Apache Spark

dbt

Airflow

BigQuery

Terraform

Job description

FedEx Corporation seeks a Data Engineer Principal to define enterprise data engineering blueprints and lead the lakehouse strategy. You will architect ingestion pipelines, enforce governance, and guide data security across a global logistics data platform.

You’ll mentor engineers and shape the technical roadmap with cross-functional teams. You will work in a hybrid model across multiple FedEx campuses, with responsibility for scalable, fault-tolerant data solutions and production readiness