Deputy Manager, Enterprise Data & AI Platform

Takaful Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Takaful Malaysia is seeking an experienced professional to design, develop, and deliver data, analytics, and AI solutions that enable data‑driven decisions and enterprise transformation. You will lead hands-on development and provide functional leadership across stakeholders and governance teams.

You will work on building, standardizing, and maturing the Enterprise Data Platform, ensuring security, compliance, and long-term value realization across transformation phases.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–6 years in data/analytics/AI delivery roles with transformation experience.
• Experience in enterprise data platforms and architecture, with governance alignment.
• Regulated financial services environment experience is preferred.
• Certifications in cloud data and AI are strongly required or preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) to enable transformation initiatives.
• Lead foundational EDP capabilities: ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, AI enablement.
• Standardize and industrialize data/analytics platforms across transformation phases.
• Translate priorities into EDP requirements, roadmaps, and architecture components.
• Develop data pipelines, datasets, dashboards, and AI/ML models integrated with the EDP.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-impact use cases.
• Ensure security, privacy, resilience, and regulatory compliance with governance.
• Provide technical mentorship to juniors and contributors on EDP delivery.

Skills

Data pipelines

Dashboards

AI/ML models

Data governance

Security & privacy

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentorship

Enterprise data platforms

Architecture guidance

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's degree in Data Science, AI, Analytics

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Math, Statistics

Diploma in a relevant discipline with extensive data/analytics/AI experience

Professional certifications in Big Data, Analytics, or AI

Tools

Databricks

Hadoop ecosystem

Spark

Job description

Takaful Malaysia is seeking an experienced professional to design, develop, and deliver data, analytics, and AI solutions that enable data‑driven decisions and enterprise transformation. You will lead hands-on development and provide functional leadership across stakeholders and governance teams.

You will work on building, standardizing, and maturing the Enterprise Data Platform, ensuring security, compliance, and long-term value realization across transformation phases.