Company Description
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, founded in 1979 we have employed over 18,000+ trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 340+ locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.
IS Global Service Center (GSC) operating from Chennai, India, is a part of IS supporting Expeditors IT operations.IS GSC started with 6 employees now we are 470+ employees today delivering world class Information services globally. This Product based Strategic Center's IT transformation has delivered a radical change to Expeditors IT manpower profile and skills over the past three years and will continue to deliver services as we continue to grow responsibly in the coming years.
Job Description
SUMMARY
The Core Enterprise Data and Analytics purpose is to develop and maintain the data and analytics infrastructure that enables effective reporting, analytics, business intelligence and work boards to other IS Portfolios, Operations, and our clients. As an Azure Data Administrator, you will perform administration of various Data Ecosystem including Warehouse, Data Factory, Data Lake as part of a collection of systems in a large technology ecosystem. This role will oversee the entire Data Platform ensuring it to be secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, collaborative team player, and problem solver.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Performing upgrades, maintenance and implementing system modifications in our cloud platform.
- Develop and enforce policies and procedures for platform administration.
- Review and maintain documentation for users and administrators.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting skills in Azure Fabric platform and to resolve issues.
- Review and evaluate tasks based on priority and set clear deadlines to instill a sense of urgency.
- Collaborate and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
- Support users during change control and system updates.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 3 years of experience in managing Azure Cloud and/or AWS Cloud is must.
- Experience with cloud data warehouse and analytics technologies, specifically Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, ADLS and SQL Server (SSIS and SSAS), Power BI is required.
- Knowledge or experience with data access control/security models.
- Experience in capacity planning, cloud cost analysis and cloud resources optimization.
- Manage various Azure data pipelines, job schedules and systems to ensure performance and uptime.
- Co-ordination with application/migration team for data setup and customer reporting.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Good to have knowledge in Logistics domain.
- Proficiency in Spark, Python, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or other code repository tools is a plus.
- Experience with Agile methodologies in a cloud, database, data warehousing and BI space.
- Azure certifications (data related)
REPORTING STRUCTURE
- Team Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics.
Additional Information
Expeditors offers excellent benefits:
- Paid Vacation, Holiday
- Health Plan: Medical Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Education Programs
- Unlimited opportunities for career advancement
Top Skills
What We Do
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 (374) company, we employ over 16,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 320 locations across six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.
We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors' comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.
To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.
At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."
