Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Federal Express Corporation is a transportation and logistics company seeking a Sr Data Scientist to provide enterprise-level expertise and leadership in data, analytics, and statistical modeling. The role develops and deploys advanced analytical solutions, delivers actionable insights to management, leads cross-functional teams, mentors staff, and advises senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Creates and executes solutions form initial concept to fully tested production and communicates results to a broad range of audiences
- Advanced use of current and emerging technologies to evaluate trends and develop actionable insights and recommendations to management, via understanding of the business model and the information available for analysis
- Uses data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and high complexity predictive modeling and fact-based management to drive decision making
- Mentors less senior staff. Leads cross functional teams. Routinely work on multiple highly complex assignments
- Provides consultation to senior leadership on a normal basis
- Performs other duties as assigned
Skills
- Superior analytical skills with diverse analytics and statistical software and applications
- Excellent interpersonal skills, written and oral communication skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Strong Python skills (data pipelines, automation, scripting)
- Experience with SQL and cloud data warehousing (BigQuery or equivalent)
- Experience with cost/financial data analysis or FinOps-adjacent reporting
- 3+ years of experience in data science or data engineering roles
- Experience with medallion (bronze/silver/gold) data architecture
- Hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, notebooks/jobs)
- Proficiency in Power BI and Microsoft 365 (Excel/Power Query) for reporting
- Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Applied machine learning experience (forecasting, anomaly detection, cost optimization models)
- Experience building or integrating agentic/LLM-based workflows
- One of the following: FinOps Certified Practitioner / FinOps for AI, Google Cloud certification, Azure certification, OCI certification
- Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, applied mathematics, data analytics, statistics or related quantitative field
- Five years' work experience in measurement and analysis, quantitative business problem solving, operations analysis, marketing analysis, simulation and/or predictive analytics
Benefits
- Hybrid position; candidates residing within 50 miles of a FedEx campus will be required to work on-site at a FedEx location several times per week.
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