Federal Express Corporation is seeking qualified applicants for Sr. Data Scientist and Data Scientist Advisor positions. By applying to this posting, you may be considered for either role, depending on your qualifications and experience. Job Description Supports service measurement, improvement, and goaling activities through advanced exploratory data analysis and statistics. Includes quantification of current, historical, or future “what if” scenarios using detailed scan data, which necessitates frequent and iterative use of Spark and big data processing instead of traditional SQL. Provides tradeoff quantifications between service, cost, revenue, and customer experience for different scenarios through exploratory data analysis and mathematical reasoning. Requires critical thinking about orders of magnitude and asymptotic behavior of trends. Develops fact bases to help build strategic narratives of opportunity areas through self-directed exploration of scan...
The Data Engineer Advisor plays a pivotal role within FedEx, focused on creating and driving engineering innovation within Dataworks, helping define and build the 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. The Data Engineer Advisor will contribute to the creation of and adherence to technical standards for data engineering, including the selection and refinements of foundational technical components. S/he will work on those aspects of the 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. Under minimal supervision, supports the design, build, test and maintain data pipelines at big data scale....