Takes ownership and responsibility for the support the design, build, test and maintain UI, API and data pipelines at big 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 sophisticated descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive and ensemble modeling, sophisticated statistical techniques, and sophisticated 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 innovative 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 get results and effectively collaborates with multi-functional teams to deliver business goals!

Job Description / Responsibilities

• Leads team responsible for software development and data engineering within the organization responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining all application software and data pipelines for real-time/batch analysis, modeling, reporting, and data collection, ensuring data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Collaborate effectively with all the collaborators including the teams within Dataworks such as Data Science, Product Management, SAD, and Platform Engineering, and the planning & engineering teams across regions to deliver outcome and value driven solutions to Operation and business execution teams.
• Ensure a team of software and data engineers builds, deploys, and maintains UI, API and data layer that enables the data democratization by working closely with data science, product, application development and strategic teams.
• Ensure alignment to standard processes to ensure reliability, resiliency, security, privacy, and compliance for all application UI/API/Data layers.
• Evaluates and implements standard methodologies, tools and processes for web-based application software, APIs, data access and analysis, including large data sets.
• Provide post launch support by partnering with SRE team to ensure the high availability and performance of the applications and products.
• Provide adequate staffing, and financial and contractual oversight for a team of data and software engineers.
• Coach and mentor other team members to get results and effectively collaborates across multi-functional teams to deliver business goals.

Skills / Abilities

• Expertise in software development in building the solutions for the operation domains like Linehaul Air.
• Experience in architecting and developing User Experience, REST-based APIs and Data Layers
• Compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions that deliver tangible, ongoing value.
• 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 mentality embracing ambiguity combined with an engineering mentality 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, etc., with a solid understanding of standard processes.
• Development experience within Cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud platform.
• Experience in the use of the Agile methodology and Agile based tools
• Leads others through project/analysis by setting and coordinating priorities, developing timelines, monitoring deliverables, and coaching and guiding as needed.
• Able to demonstrate creativity and initiative in analyzing business issues and proposing Solutions.
• Able to consistently drive a team to be outcome driven.
• Strong written and verbal communication including the ability to clearly articulate recommendations and adapt messaging to audience. Includes the ability to effectively add clarity based on an abstract idea with limited management input.
• Ability to define a complex abstract problem, identify a solution including alternatives, and successfully influence collaborators

Minimum Qualifications

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.

Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected].