Data Engineer - Onsite for Enterprise Data Lake & ETL

Tentacle Tech; Bandar Baru Bangi; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tentacle Tech is seeking a Data Engineer to join on a contract basis, onsite in Malaysia, to own data mapping and the development of Enterprise Data Lake pipelines across Bronze, Silver and Gold layers for a finance-sector project.

You will design, develop, test and implement robust data workflows using NiFi, Airflow, Kafka, and Iceberg, with Python and SQL on Linux environments. The role offers hands-on delivery with mentoring and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in data engineering
• Experience with data lakes and ETL pipelines
• Familiarity with Linux, scripting and networking systems

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines, from sourcing to final data product delivery
• Design warehouse schemas and analytical models
• Clean, preprocess and transform data to create data products and load them for analytics
• Integrate data from multiple sources into centralised platforms for analytics and reporting
• Build frameworks for data validation, monitoring and error handling
• Prepare documentation covering data mapping and technical specifications

Skills

ETL development

Data warehousing

Data modeling

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related

Tools

NiFi

Airflow

Apache Iceberg

Kafka

Job description

Tentacle Tech is seeking a Data Engineer to join on a contract basis, onsite in Malaysia, to own data mapping and the development of Enterprise Data Lake pipelines across Bronze, Silver and Gold layers for a finance-sector project.

You will design, develop, test and implement robust data workflows using NiFi, Airflow, Kafka, and Iceberg, with Python and SQL on Linux environments. The role offers hands-on delivery with mentoring and growth opportunities.