Senior Data Engineering & AI Platform Lead

HTK; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

HTK, based in Hong Kong, seeks a Senior Data Engineering Manager to build scalable data infrastructure and BI platforms for Viu, a leading OTT service with millions of MAU and subscribers. You will lead a skilled team of software, infrastructure, and data professionals to support regional business needs.

You will shape a forward-looking data strategy, leverage AI and LLMs, ensure data quality, governance, and cost controls, and partner with analytics to deliver high-availability data services

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, and team leadership.
• Degree holder, preferably in statistics, computer science, or related quantitative disciplines.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python with hands-on experience applying LLMs or agentic AI to engineering development.
• Track record of managing end-to-end data delivery from requirements gathering to L2 enquiry support.
• Expertise in data architecture, data modeling, and pipeline development using Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, or Kafka on AWS or GCP.
• Strong governance, data quality, cost control, and query performance optimization.
• Domain experience in OTT, digital marketing, e-commerce, CRM, MarTech, or AdTech is highly desired.
• Strong stakeholder management and team leadership in high-paced environments.
• Fluent in English and Mandarin.

Responsibilities

• Data Delivery and Lifecycle: Prioritize data requests and translate business needs into scalable engineering deliverables.
• Data Engineering Management: Lead the data engineering team through end-to-end technical solutions, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Data Product & AI-Driven: Drive data product development leveraging agentic AI and LLMs to streamline engineering and operations.
• Data Quality & High Availability: Partner with Analytics to enforce data quality standards and maintain high data services uptime.
• Governance & Efficiency: Monitor data usage, cost controls, security, access, and pipeline efficiency.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

SQL

Python

LLMs

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Degree in statistics or computer science

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Kafka

AWS / GCP

Job description

HTK, based in Hong Kong, seeks a Senior Data Engineering Manager to build scalable data infrastructure and BI platforms for Viu, a leading OTT service with millions of MAU and subscribers. You will lead a skilled team of software, infrastructure, and data professionals to support regional business needs.

You will shape a forward-looking data strategy, leverage AI and LLMs, ensure data quality, governance, and cost controls, and partner with analytics to deliver high-availability data services