MarTech Data Engineer - Real-Time Pipelines & Integrations

DFI Retail Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

DFI Retail Group is building a unified martech ecosystem across the group. The role designs, builds, and supports scalable data pipelines powering customer data platform, loyalty, and marketing automation.

You will own real-time and batch ingestion, data modeling, migrations from legacy systems, and provide L2 support while collaborating with architects, martech operations, and vendors.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering
• Able to read and write in Mandarin & Cantonese for regional support
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field
• Proven experience integrating via API gateways (Apigee) and microservices (Java Spring on GKE/Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable real-time (event-based) and batch data ingestion pipelines across customer, transactional, behavioural, and consent data.
• Develop and manage API, webhook, and file-based integrations using API gateways, cloud-based microservices, and Kubernetes environments.
• Ensure reliable data pipelines with schema validation, monitoring, error handling, and backfill mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and QA to validate end-to-end flows for segmentation and activation use cases.
• Design and maintain scalable data models for customer profiles, identity attributes, and activation-ready datasets.
• Implement cloud-based storage, partitioning, and data architecture balancing performance and cost.
• Establish data contracts, schema registries, quality checks, monitoring, and resilience mechanisms.
• Lead data migration/onboarding for new markets and legacy platform transitions.

Skills

Data engineering

Real-time streaming

Batch pipelines

SQL

Java

Python

API gateways

Kubernetes

Mandarin

Cantonese

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or CS

Tools

Apigee

GKE/Kubernetes

Java Spring

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Job description

DFI Retail Group is building a unified martech ecosystem across the group. The role designs, builds, and supports scalable data pipelines powering customer data platform, loyalty, and marketing automation.

You will own real-time and batch ingestion, data modeling, migrations from legacy systems, and provide L2 support while collaborating with architects, martech operations, and vendors.