About the role
The Data Engineer III plays a pivotal role within Dataworks, focused on driving engineering innovation within Dataworks, helping define and build the Dataworks organization and leading the delivery of key business initiatives. S/he acts as a "universal translator" between IT, business, software engineers and data scientists, collaborating with these multi-disciplinary teams. The Data Engineer III will contribute to the adherence of technical standards for data engineering, including the selection and refinements of foundational technical components. S/he will work on those aspects of the Dataworks platform that govern the ingestion, transformation, and pipelining of data assets, both to end users within FedEx and into data products and services that may be externally facing. Day-to-day, s/he will be deeply involved in code reviews and large-scale deployments. S/he will also provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers to support the continued training and up-skilling of the Data Engineering team.
Under limited supervision, supports the design, build, test and maintenance of data pipelines at big data scale. Assists with updating data from multiple data sources. Other functionalities under limited supervision include working on batch processing of collected data and matching its format to the stored data, making sure that the data is ready to be processed and analyzed. Assists with keeping the ecosystem and the pipeline optimized and efficient, troubleshooting standard performance, data related problems and providing L3 support. Implements ETL transformers to reformat and enhance the data. Provides recommendations to complex problems. Provides guidance to those in less senior positions.
About the company
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.
