“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

As a Fortune 500 company, Expeditors employs more than 17,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 300 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include the consolidation and forwarding of air or ocean freight, customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-definite transportation, order management, warehousing, distribution and customized logistics solutions. Expeditors is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Create technical solutions that require a wide range of capabilities including scripting and automation, reporting, data analysis, data visualizations, and application development. This role requires deep knowledge of Expeditors data, systems and processes and relentless pursuit to master tools, technologies and programming languages used to build impactful solutions, in order to drive financial results, operational excellence, business, and employee development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactively communicate with internal and external customers to understand their challenges and provide innovative technical solution accordingly
• Plan, build, deploy and support impactful solutions
• Develop configurable and scalable web applications
• Write scripts to streamline and automate operational processes
• Build meaningful and intuitive reports, summaries and dashboards
• Improve understanding of our current operations through research, analysis, and summarization of data
• Coach and guide other developers on projects and within the developer network
• Adhere to all development standards and procedures (i.e. SDLC, Secure Development Processes)
• Create and share reusable development artifacts
• Ensure solutions are built to scale and use enterprise approved technologies
• Cross-train team members on new tools and analytics procedures
• Manage work within our standard project management tools
• Conduct code reviews and ensure solutions are put through end-to-end testing
• Collaborate with CHQ-IS teams to improve capabilities and ensure alignment with processes
• Create intuitive and detailed documentation for all projects

• Bachelor degree or higher in the area of information systems, data analytics or computer science
• 5+ years programming experience
• Experience with Python, Java, JavaScript, Angular, HTML etc.
• Experience with database development (i.e. SQL, UML Diagrams)
• Experience with DevOps best practices such as CI/CD (i.e. Git, GitLab)
• Experience with business intelligence platforms (i.e.; Inetsoft, MS Power BI, Tableau etc.)
• Ability to clearly communicate and present to small and large groups
• Fluent English