Data Engineer

SEEK; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company based in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Data Delivery expert to build and maintain data products that provide critical business metrics. The role involves optimizing AWS infrastructure and requires advanced SQL skills along with experience in data pipeline creation. Join a company committed to inclusion and innovation, offering flexibility and professional growth opportunities.

Benefits

Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks

Frequent team events

Casual dress code

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills and deep understanding of database technology and optimization.
• Experience with Databricks, cloud-based analytics technology, preferably AWS ecosystem.
• Proven track record building data pipelines, ETL processes, and workflow orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines and datamarts for business metrics.
• Build and optimize Databricks, EMR, Spark, and SQL jobs on AWS infrastructure.
• Deploy and operate production systems using DevOps principles.

Skills

Advanced SQL skills

Experience with Databricks

Proven track record building data pipelines

Knowledge of DevOps practices

Experience extracting structured data

Tools

AWS

SQL

Databricks

Spark

EMR

Job description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

About the role

You will serve as a hands-on technical expert in the Data Delivery team, building data products that measure key business metrics and providing trustworthy data assets for SEEK teams across APAC. You will develop and maintain data processing pipelines, datamarts, and cloud-based solutions using AWS technology. Working within Data Services, you will enable every SEEKer to use Data and AI to drive innovation and growth at both scale and speed. Success in this role means delivering reliable data solutions that power business decisions and supporting data consumers across the organization to maximize the value of our data assets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines and datamarts for business metrics.
• Build and optimize Databricks, EMR, Spark, and SQL jobs on AWS infrastructure.
• Deploy and operate production systems using DevOps principles and best practices.
• Support data consumers with query optimization and data quality issue resolution.
• Analyze and enhance performance of SQL queries and physical database schemas.
• Extract structured data from unstructured documents using modern techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills and deep understanding of database technology and optimization.
• Experience with Databricks, cloud-based analytics technology, preferably AWS ecosystem.
• Proven track record building data pipelines, ETL processes, and workflow orchestration.
• Experience developing datamarts, data warehouses, and data modeling solutions.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices including deployments, monitoring, and system administration.
• Experience extracting structured data from unstructured documents and sources.

Perks and benefits

• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days, annual year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don\'t meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific supportor adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.