Location: Singapore
Experience: 10+ years in Data Engineering, including hands-on Big Data expertise and team management
Domain: Banking / Financial Services preferred
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage data engineering teams to design, develop, and deliver scalable enterprise data platforms and pipelines
- Maintain strong hands-on expertise in Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, PySpark, Hive, Kafka, and distributed data processing
- Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines, data ingestion frameworks, data transformation, and data integration solutions
- Drive data engineering architecture, technical design, performance tuning, and optimization of large-scale data processing workloads
- Manage data lake, data warehouse, and modern cloud-based data platform implementations
- Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and technologies such as Databricks, where applicable
- Lead data quality, data governance, metadata management, security, and data reliability initiatives
- Collaborate with solution architects, data architects, business stakeholders, and project managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Manage project delivery, resource allocation, technical reviews, risk mitigation, and delivery timelines
- Mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and ensure high-quality, maintainable, and production-ready code
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, Big Data development, and enterprise data platforms
- Proven hands-on experience in Big Data technologies, with the ability to guide teams technically and troubleshoot complex engineering challenges
- Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, SQL, and distributed data processing frameworks
- Experience building and managing complex data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and large-scale data processing solutions
- Demonstrated experience leading data engineering teams, managing deliverables, and driving technical execution
- Strong understanding of data modelling, data architecture, performance optimization, and data platform scalability
- Experience with cloud-based data engineering and modern data platforms is highly desirable
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills
Preferred: Experience in banking, financial services, regulatory reporting, risk analytics, or other data-intensive enterprise environments.
Ideal Candidate: A technically strong Data Engineering Manager who combines practical Big Data development experience with proven people leadership, solution delivery, and the ability to guide engineers through complex data engineering challenges.