MANAGER, DATA ENGINEERING

Job Summary Takes ownership and responsibility for the support the design, build, test and maintain data pipelines at big data scale.
Leads a team responsible for modeling and development to support operations initiatives, strategic programs and new products and solutions.
Strong background and experience in the use of advanced descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive and ensemble modeling, advanced statistical techniques, and complex mathematical tools.
Uses expertise to lead a team that initiates and delivers projects and develops end-to-end solutions that drive business results, including proofs-of-value for new business problems and production-ready solutions for operations and customer-facing products.
Understands and ensures development of solutions supporting the movement of data and information assets following API-First / Service-Oriented Architecture principles.
Advances Dataworks’ broad capabilities to use and deploy cutting edge data science and machine learning tools in Dataworks projects, platforms and products.
Provides expert consultation and thought leadership to senior management.
Mentors other team members to drive results and effectively collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver business goals.
Job Description / Responsibilities Lead a team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining all data pipelines for real-time/batch and high-volume streaming analysis, modeling, reporting, and data collection, ensuring data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
Collaborate effectively with other groups in FedEx Dataworks including Data Science, E-Commerce Products, Supply Chain Solutions, and Platform Engineering to ensure data supporting value driven analytics is ingested and maintained with the FedEx enterprise data lake.
Ensure a team of data engineers builds, deploys, and maintains data processing infrastructure that supports complex analysis across data science, product, application development and strategic teams.
Ensure adherence to best practices to ensure reliability, resiliency, security, privacy, and compliance for all data assets.
Manage a backlog of data sources to be ingested into the FedEx enterprise data lake.
Lead the creation of data products using curation and merging of multiple data sources and query optimization.
Support incident management procedures to ensure high quality data is available to data lake consumers.
Resolve issues and communicate status of team activities to senior management.
Ensure appropriate data governance, data stewardship, and data sensitivity practices are applied to data residing in the FedEx enterprise data lake.
Provide staffing, and financial and contractual oversight for a team of data engineers.
Coach and mentor team members to drive results and effectively collaborates across cross-functional teams to deliver business goals.
Skills / Abilities Compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions that deliver tangible, ongoing value Strong background and experience in the use of sophisticated descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive and ensemble modeling, advanced statistical techniques, and complex mathematical tools Ability to make value driven trade-offs and project prioritization decisions Ability to context-switch to provide support to dispersed teams to unblock especially challenging technical obstacles, and to work through problems as they are still being defined A design mindset embracing ambiguity combined with an engineering mindset willing to make rapid, pragmatic decisions to improve performance and accelerate progress.
Experience in the transportation industry and understanding of evolving technology.
Familiarity with analyzing large-scale structured and unstructured data using Scala and Python.
Experience working in Big Data technologies like Spark, Kafka, Databricks, etc., with a solid understanding of best practices.
Development experience within Cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud platform.
Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related quantitative field such as Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent formal training or work experience.
Extensive knowledge in data engineering and machine learning frameworks including design, development and implementation of highly complex systems and data pipelines.
Extensive knowledge in Information Systems including design, development and implementation of large batch or online transaction-based systems.
Strong understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies.
Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
Domicile / Relocation Information.
This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States.
The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.
Application Criteria.
Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by 5pm ET April .
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Monthly Salary.
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This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role.
Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include but are not limited to your specific skills, your work location, how many years of experience you have, and comparison to other employees already in this role.
Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges.
We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by.
Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems; Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight; Building and iterating on solutions that generate value; Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance.
At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone.
Employee Benefits.
medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid Life and AD&D insurance; tuition reimbursement; paid sick leave; paid parental leave, paid vacation, paid military leave, and additional paid time off; geographic pay ranges; 401k with Company match and incentive bonus potential; sales Incentive compensation for selling roles.
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