Engineering Manager - Memphis, United States - FedEx Dataworks

Description

3620 Hacks Cross Road Memphis,Tennessee United States of America

RC719445 Engineering Manager (Open)

Engineering

Want a career where you are empowered to make a difference? Want to work for a company that is environmentally responsible? Want to grow and develop on the job? If so, FedEx is the place for you Every day FedEx delivers for its customers with transportation and business solutions.

FedEx serves more than 220 countries and territories around the globe. We can serve this global network due to our outstanding team of FedEx employees. FedEx has over 400,000 talented employees who are tasked with making every FedEx experience outstanding. FedEx has been recognized on many different lists both for business success and for being a great employer.

Here are some of the recognitions FedEx has received from the past couple of years:
Fortune "World's Most Admired Companies" - 2020
Forbes "Best Employers for Diversity" - 2020
Reputation Institute "World's Most Reputable Companies" - 2019
National Business Inclusion Consortium "Best-of-the-Best Corporations for Inclusion" - 2019
Women's Business Enterprise National Council "America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises"

When 400,000 employees around the globe are all working together it is amazing what we can achieve FedEx connects people and ideas.

If you would like to make a difference on a global scale while receiving top notch benefits, competitive pay, and plenty of opportunities to develop, click 'Apply' and tell us more about yourself.

About the Role:

This is a "manager-doer" role, where familiarity with the details of the work and the tech stack will be essential given the likelihood of being deeply involved in code, design, architectural reviews, and deployment.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a high degree of personal accountability, be value-driven, consistently exhibit a bias to action, demonstrate clarity under conditions of uncertainty and change, and possess a strong sense of outcome orientation


Responsibilities:

Lead a team 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 other groups in FedEx Dataworks including Data Science, E-Commerce Products, Supply Chain Solutions, and Platform Engineering to deliver high value platform enhancing capabilities and customer centered solutions.

Ensure delivery teams build, deploy, and maintain data processing infrastructure that supports complex analysis across data science, product, application development and strategic teams.

Evaluate and implement best practices such as API-First/Service-Oriented Architecture principles, tools and processes for web-based application software, APIs, data access and analysis, including large data sets.

Ensure adherence to best practices to ensure reliability, resiliency, security, privacy, and compliance for all data assets.
Coach and mentor other team members to drive results and effectively collaborates across cross-functional teams to deliver business goals.


Other Skills Considered a Plus:
Expertise in software development in the e-commerce and/or supply chain domain
Compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions that deliver tangible, ongoing value

Strong background and experience in the use of advanced descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive and ensemble modeling, advanced statistical techniques, and complex mathematical tools.

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, 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 Information Systems, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics or Engineering and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Seven (7) years equivalent work experience in measurement and analysis, quantitative business problem solving, simulation development and/or predictive analytics.

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 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 5 pm Central Time May 1st.

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.

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Residents Only - Compensation:


Monthly Salary:
$12, $17,083.00

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.

EEO Statement - FedEx Dataworks is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetics disability, or protected Veteran status.

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.

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