Adv-Data Platform Engineer

FedEx Freight is seeking an Advanced Data Platform Engineer to support its enterprise data platform capabilities. The role designs, operates, secures, and optimizes a cloud-native Lakehouse platform that enables analytics, artificial intelligence, and data products while improving reliability, governance, automation, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and operate the enterprise Lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar)
• Manage platform configuration, storage architecture, catalogs, schemas, and access controls
• Administer governance capabilities such as Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and enterprise security policies
• Optimize platform performance, workload management, and query execution
• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment
• Partner with cloud infrastructure teams on networking, identity, and compute
• Enable data engineering, analytics, and AI teams through reusable platform capabilities
• Manage platform cost optimization (FinOps) and capacity planning
• Support regulatory compliance, auditing, and data protection requirements
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Some travel required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in data science, computer science, information systems, or a related field
• Five (5) years' work experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud DBA, or related field
• 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
• Advanced experience conducting end-to-end analyses, including data gathering and requirements
• Ability to provide leadership in a general planning or consulting setting
• Ability to develop and act as a leader of multi-functional project teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences