Data Engineer Lead

This role is based in Poland.

The Data Engineer Lead plays a pivotal role within Dataworks, focused on creating and driving engineering innovation within Dataworks, helping define and build the Dataworks organization and facilitate 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. Under minimal supervision, supports the design of data pipelines at big data scale keeping the ecosystem optimized and efficient. Provides recommendations to highly complex problems and guidance to those in less senior positions.

Job Description

• understanding in depth both the business and technical problems Dataworks aims to solve - building tools, platforms and pipelines to enable teams to clearly and cleanly analyze data, build models and drive decisions;
• scaling up from "laptop-scale" to "cluster scale" problems, in terms of both infrastructure and problem structure and technique;
• delivering tangible value very rapidly, collaborating with diverse teams of varying backgrounds and disciplines;
• codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases;
• interacting with senior technologists from the broader enterprise and outside of FedEx (partner ecosystems and customers) to create synergies and ensure smooth deployments to downstream operational systems.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics or Engineering and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

• 5 - 7' years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment ;
• 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, both Polish and English;
• a related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• technical background in computer science, software engineering, database systems, distributed systems;
• fluency with distributed and cloud environments and a deep understanding of how to balance computational considerations with theoretical properties;
• detailed knowledge of the Microsoft Azure tooling for large-scale data engineering efforts and deployments is highly preferred;
• a compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions, which deliver tangible, ongoing value;
• direct experience having built and deployed robust, complex production systems that implement modern, data scientific methods at scale;
• ability to context-switch, to provide support to dispersed teams which may need an "expert hacker" to unblock an especially challenging technical obstacle, and to work through problems as they are still being defined;
• demonstrated ability to deliver technical projects with a team, often working under tight time constraints to deliver value;
• an 'engineering' mindset, willing to make rapid, pragmatic decisions to improve performance, accelerate progress or magnify impact;
• comfort with working with distributed teams on code-based deliverables, using version control systems and code reviews;
• ability to conduct data analysis, investigation, and lineage studies to document and enhance data quality and access;
• use of agile and develops practices for project and software management including continuous integration and continuous delivery;
• strong hands-on experience with Spark (PySpark, Scala) and Databricks for large-scale distributed data processing and analytics;
• proven track record using Kafka and Structured Streaming, particularly with Azure Event Hubs for real-time data ingestion;
• solid background in working with SQL and NoSQL systems, Python data stack, Java, Kubernetes;
• practical experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code and cloud resource provisioning.

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