Data Platform Engineer — Build Scalable APAC Data Solutions

Zurich Insurance; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zurich 56 Company Ltd in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Data Engineer – Platform & Analytics to join our regional edge platform data team supporting digital business across Asia-Pacific.

This role sits within a technical team closely aligned with application development and is responsible for delivering end-to-end data solutions, including application databases, data lakehouse platforms, data pipelines, data sharing, and business reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–7 years of experience in data engineering, database development, or analytics engineering.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments is preferred.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight timelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
• Continuous learning attitude with a willingness to explore new technologies and AI capabilities.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across regional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Support and optimize cloud-based data platforms, databases, and data lakehouses.
• Build scalable data integration solutions across multiple source systems.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence across data assets.
• Manage data ingestion, transformation, and data delivery processes.
• Support application databases and perform database troubleshooting.
• Assist with database performance tuning, access management, and operational support.
• Implement data security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Support deployment, release activities, and production issue resolution.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements.
• Develop and support dashboards, reports, and analytical datasets.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data models and reporting solutions.
• Enable self-service reporting through well-structured and governed datasets.
• Contribute to data standards, best practices, and solution standardization initiatives.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational controls for data solutions.
• Support automation and AI-driven opportunities to improve delivery efficiency.
• Participate in architecture reviews and platform improvement initiatives.

Skills

SQL development

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data modelling

Power BI

Git

Analytical thinking

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Data Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

AWS

Azure

S3

Lambda

IAM

Git

Power BI

Job description

Zurich 56 Company Ltd in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Data Engineer – Platform & Analytics to join our regional edge platform data team supporting digital business across Asia-Pacific.

This role sits within a technical team closely aligned with application development and is responsible for delivering end-to-end data solutions, including application databases, data lakehouse platforms, data pipelines, data sharing, and business reporting.