Enterprise Data & AI Architect

Takaful Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Takaful Malaysia is seeking a Data and AI Architect to design, govern, and evolve the enterprise data and AI architecture, ensuring data is treated as a strategic asset and AI solutions are secure and responsible.

You will collaborate with business, data, technology, and risk teams to deliver scalable, regulated data platforms, analytics, and AI capabilities, applying governance, security-by-design, and privacy-by-design across the organization.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree plus 5–6 years in data/AI delivery roles, or Bachelor’s with 8–10 years in data/AI delivery, including enterprise or transformation work, or Diploma with 10–12 years in data architecture leadership.
• Experience designing enterprise data architectures and data models, data governance, MDM, metadata, data quality, lineage, and information management.
• Experience supporting analytics, BI, data warehousing, data lake/lakehouse, and AI/ML/GenAI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data and AI architecture standards, principles, reference models, and guidelines.
• Design target-state data architectures, data models, information flows, and AI solution architectures.
• Provide architecture guidance and technical advisory for data, analytics, AI, and automation initiatives.
• Define data integration patterns for secure, accurate data exchange across apps and ecosystems.
• Conduct architecture reviews to ensure alignment with standards and governance requirements.
• Support data platform management, data migration, quality, MDM, metadata, and lifecycle initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure data/AI solutions.
• Promote data and AI governance, including data quality, lineage, and responsible AI principles.
• Support analytics, reporting, ML, GenAI, and data-driven initiatives with reliable data assets.
• Evaluate emerging data/AI technologies and patterns; recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to ensure compliance with architecture standards.

Skills

Data governance

AI governance

Security-by-design

Privacy-by-design

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Data platforms

Data integration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master’s degree in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, or a related field

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline

Diploma in a relevant discipline

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Fabric

AWS

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Takaful Malaysia is seeking a Data and AI Architect to design, govern, and evolve the enterprise data and AI architecture, ensuring data is treated as a strategic asset and AI solutions are secure and responsible.

You will collaborate with business, data, technology, and risk teams to deliver scalable, regulated data platforms, analytics, and AI capabilities, applying governance, security-by-design, and privacy-by-design across the organization.