Manager, Data Engineer

Pixlr Group; Subang Jaya; Sur place; MYR 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual leaves

Medical and Insurance Coverages

Optical and dental subsidies

Training opportunities and guidance

Diversity and inclusive culture

Résumé du poste

Pixlr Group is seeking a Data Engineer Manager in Malaysia to own the data lifecycle— ingestion, modeling, governance, quality, security, and access—so that teams can trust and use data for decisions.

You will drive the data platform roadmap, manage a small team of engineers/analysts, and establish best practices across analytics, reporting, and governance.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in data engineering or analytics, including ownership of data platforms or major data initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery) and workflow orchestration tools.

Responsabilités

• Own data lifecycle including ingestion, modeling, governance, quality, security, and access.
• Drive data platform roadmap and establish best practices across analytics, reporting, and governance.
• Build and operate data ingestion pipelines across multiple data sources and teams.
• Establish data governance, access controls, privacy by design, and data quality management.

Connaissances

SQL

Python

Data platforms

CI/CD

Outils

Snowflake

BigQuery

Airflow

Description du poste

We’re seeking a Data Engineer Manager to own our data lifecycle including ingestion, modeling, governance, quality, security, and access, so teams can trust and use data to make decisions. You will drive the data platform roadmap, manage a small team (engineers/analysts), and establish best practices across analytics, reporting, and governance.

The Job:

1. Data Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and execute the data strategy aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Prioritise data initiatives including dashboards, master data management, event tracking, experimentation readiness, and AI/ML readiness.

2. Platform & Architecture

• Own the data platform stack, including data ingestion, transformation, storage, orchestration, metadata, and business intelligence layers.
• Design scalable data schemas, dimensional models, and semantic layers to support self-service analytics.

3. Data Engineering & Operations

• Build and operate data ingestion pipelines across product, marketing, finance, and third-party data sources.
• Establish data engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, code review, version control, and service levels for critical datasets.
• Monitor and optimise platform performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

4. Governance, Security & Compliance

• Implement data governance practices covering data ownership, definitions, lineage, and retention.
• Enforce data access controls, masking, anonymisation, and privacy-by-design principles, including compliance with PDPA and GDPR.
• Drive data quality management through defined data quality (DQ) rules, monitoring, and issue resolution.

5. Analytics Enablement

• Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, certified datasets, and reporting standards.
• Enable self-service analytics through governed data models and documentation.
• Standardise event tracking and experimentation data practices.

6. People & Vendor Management

• Manage and support day-to-day work planning for data engineers and analysts involved in data initiatives.
• Coordinate with external vendors and service providers supporting the data platform.
• Support evaluation of tools and vendors related to data engineering and analytics.

The Person:

• 6-10 years of experience in data engineering or analytics, including ownership of data platforms or major data initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (e.g.: Snowflake, BigQuery, etc), data modelling approaches, and workflow orchestration tools.
• Practical experience with dimensional modeling, ELT design, DQ frameworks, PII handling, access control, and privacy requirements (including PDPA and GDPR).
• Ability to translate business requirements into data models, KPIs, and analytics outputs.
• Strong ownership, execution discipline, and stakeholder communication skills.
  

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with event analytics (product analytics, A/B testing), reverse ETL, and semantic layers (LookML/Thin Semantic models).
• Exposure to ML feature stores/ML Ops (Feast, Vertex/AWS SageMaker pipelines).
• Hands-on with PDPA/GDPR, ISO 27001/SOC 2 (Type II), PCI DSS (if payments), data retention & ROPA, DPIA/PIA processes, data masking/tokenization, cross-border transfer controls, vendor risk/DPAs, audit readiness, and partnering with Security/GRC/DPO.

• Annual Leaves- Additional annual leave will be credited to you on a yearly basis.
• Medical and Insurance Coverages - We have got you covered.
• Subsidies - Enhancing your well-being, we offer optical and dental subsidies.
• Opportunities - Above training and guidance, you will have the opportunity to try, to build your confidence and become your best self, and to interact and build a strong relationship.
• Rocking Diversity- Play hard, work harder with people of diverse skill sets and experiences! Challange yourself to step out of your comfort zone, and you'll find yourself growing in way you'd never imagine.