Company Description
“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder
Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.
- 18,000 trained professionals
- 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
- Fortune 500
- Globally unified systems
Job Description
This BI Analyst (SQL / Power BI) role within GEO-IS Solutions department working with a team of developers and analysts who support our customers and district operations. Our department supports freight operations for a variety of products and services that include the following:
- Freight
- Customs
- Customer Analytics
- Compliance and other services
Successful candidates must understand or be able to translate complex business requirements into scalable and trusted solutions, including queries, automations, reports, and dashboards. At the core, a successful Solutions Developer will excel at the following:
- Design, develop and maintain solutions
- Fulfill business needs through crafting and presenting data
- Presents information through easy-to-interpret reports, visualization, and dashboards
- Drives efficiency in operations through task automation
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Translate business needs into technical specifications to build solutions
- Design, build, and deploy solutions supporting reporting and automation supporting district operational teams (i.e., reports, dashboards, automating tasks/activities)
- Provides production support for existing solutions
- Conduct testing and troubleshooting with end users
- Conduct code reviews and ensure solutions are put through end-to-end testing
- Maintain proper version control and solution backup
- Develop and update technical documentation
- Create, collaborate and promote industry best practices within the team and department
- Train end-users and stakeholders to effectively utilize solutions
- Support agile work processes and keep work management systems current (i.e. Azure DevOps)
- Completes development within service level agreements and cycle time expectations as defined by team
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field or three years of related professional experience
- 2+ Years of professional development experience
- Work effectively with a cross-functional development team
- Self-assigns work as necessary to meet the team's commitments
- Design creative, thoughtful, and professional-looking reports, and dashboards
- Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL or Python
- Proficient with BI and reporting platforms (i.e., Inetsoft, Power BI)
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., VBA, Excel)
Desired Qualifications
- Microsoft PL-300 Certification
- Proficient in Python (i.e., pandas, numpy) and JavaScript
- Proficient in Microsoft DAX or M
- Experience with MS Fabric, Databricks or Azure Synapse
- Experience in task automation (i.e., Power Platform, etc.)
- Experience with code versioning using GitLab
Additional Information
This position must be based out of one of our offices located in Atlanta - GA, Detroit - MI, Edison - NJ, or Dallas - TX.
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Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday (in office). We are an office business attire company.
Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.
Expeditors offers excellent benefits
- Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Time
- Health Plan: Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental and Vision
- Life and Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (US only)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Personnel Development Program
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
For internal applicants, should you be interested in applying for this position, please discuss this opportunity with your Supervisor.
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."
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