Senior Data Platform Engineer | Databricks & Fabric Lead

Ambition; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition in Hong Kong seeks a Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Lead to design, build, and scale a modern enterprise data platform leveraging Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This role combines hands-on engineering with data modelling and technical leadership across retail and POS environments.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable data products, drive architecture standards, and mentor engineering teams while delivering reliable, high-performance

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related fields.
• Proven track record designing enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Experience building modern data platforms and analytics ecosystems.
• Retail/POS or consumer-facing domain experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise data platform design.
• Own and evolve data architecture across Databricks and Fabric.
• Drive standards for data engineering, governance, and documentation.
• Translate business objectives into scalable data solutions.
• Design and maintain robust data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Integrate data from POS, ERP, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Data engineering

Databricks

Leadership

Data modelling

Streaming data

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Ambition in Hong Kong seeks a Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Lead to design, build, and scale a modern enterprise data platform leveraging Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This role combines hands-on engineering with data modelling and technical leadership across retail and POS environments.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable data products, drive architecture standards, and mentor engineering teams while delivering reliable, high-performance