Hybrid Data & AI Platform Engineer (APAC)

CFGI; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CFGI is standing up its Data & AI build team in APAC and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to build and operate the data foundation for analytics and AI solutions. The role is manager-level, based in Malaysia, hybrid in Malaysia with some travel across Asia-Pacific, and requires ownership of end-to-end data architecture and governance.

You will design and operate governed pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse, semantic layer and data contracts, working with AI engineers, data scientists and stakeholders

Qualifications

• 5–10 years hands-on data-engineering experience building and operating production pipelines.
• Experience delivering end-to-end data work to production standards, governance and lineage.
• Ability to explain data design and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate data foundations for AI/analytics solutions.
• Design ingestion pipelines, lakehouse, semantic layer and governance controls.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to prepare AI-ready data and datasets.
• Own data quality, lineage, master data and privacy, with audit-ready outputs.
• Mentor junior data resources as the team grows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Azure/AWS/GCP

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Dagster

Lakehouse

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Dagster

LookML

Apache Iceberg

Job description

CFGI is standing up its Data & AI build team in APAC and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to build and operate the data foundation for analytics and AI solutions. The role is manager-level, based in Malaysia, hybrid in Malaysia with some travel across Asia-Pacific, and requires ownership of end-to-end data architecture and governance.

You will design and operate governed pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse, semantic layer and data contracts, working with AI engineers, data scientists and stakeholders