Data Engineer

Great Eastern Life; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern Life is seeking an Associate Data Engineer in Kuala Lumpur. This role involves ensuring the efficiency of data pipelines, engaging in data analysis and transformation processes, and developing ETL/ELT jobs to support various analytics projects. Candidates should have a Bachelor's Degree and relevant experience, particularly with Big Data and Hadoop technologies.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in data warehouse and large-scale data architecture.
• Familiar with Big data and Hadoop technologies.
• Experienced in handling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Ensure data infrastructure supports availability and blending of data.
• Design, develop, document and implement data pipelines.
• Monitor and improve data quality and establish best practices.

Skills

Big data

Hadoop

SQL

Data analysis

Data cleansing

ETL/ELT

Data integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Talend ETL/ELT

Tableau

SAS

Job description

Job Number:

Data Engineer (

Job Number:

210001SD )

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Associate, Data Engineer.

The Role:

• Ensure adequate data infrastructure is in place to support the availability and efficient blending of traditional, unstructured and also third party data for various analytics projects;
• Work closely with various business owners to prepare contextual data sets to support downstream applications, such as Tableau and SAS
• Design, develop, document and implement end-to-end data pipelines and data integration processes, both batch and real time;
• Perform data analysis, data profiling, data cleansing, data lineage, data mapping and data transformation;
• Develop ETL / ELT jobs and workflows, and deployment of data solutions;
• Monitor, recommend, develop and implement ways to improve data quality including reliability, efficiency and cleanliness to optimize and fine tune processes;
• Recommend, execute and deliver best practices in data management and data lifecycle processes, including modular development of data processes, coding and configuration standards, error handling and notification standards, auditing standards, and data archival standards.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practice.
• Other responsibilities entailed

The Person:

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science or Engineering;
• At least 2 years of experience in data warehouse, operational data store and large scale data architecture;
• Familiar with Big data and Hadoop technologies (e.g. Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Kafka, Spark Streaming) and SQL Data Warehouse;
• Hands-on development experience with Talend ETL/ELT (or similar tools such as SSIS) to transform complex data structure in a multidata source environment;
• Experienced in handling and processing different types of data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured)
• Experience in insurance or financial services is a plus;
• Project management skill is a plus.

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.