Senior Analytics Engineer — AI-Driven Data Foundations

foodpanda; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free food

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

foodpanda is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to shape data foundations and drive data-driven decisions across the organization. You will design, develop, and maintain core data models, data marts, semantic layers, and knowledge layers powering AI agents across Product, Marketing, Logistics, and Finance.

You will champion data quality, governance, observability, and best practices to ensure reliable, scalable data foundations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in analytics, data governance and data modeling/engineering.
• Advanced SQL skills and optimisation and data modeling techniques (e.g., dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schema).
• Familiarity with data warehousing technologies, data transformation tools and ETL/ELT processes.
• Familiarity with data visualization (Tableau, Looker) and/or analytics enablement tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Project management skills, experience in driving complex, large scale automation / data transformation projects in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders across analytics, engineering, and business.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript is a plus.
• Hands on experience with Agentic Analytics solution design, development and rollout (e.g., semantic layer, context layer, tracing & evaluation layer, harness) is a plus
• Experience working on evaluation design and working with platforms like Langfuse or Phoenix is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Data Modeling and Architecture: Design, build, and maintain robust and scalable data marts/models that accurately represent business needs and support complex analyses.
• Data Governance and Integrity: Establish and enforce data quality standards, implement data validation checks, and ensure data lineage is clearly documented.
• Metrics Definition and Governance: Collaborate with function analytics teams and business stakeholders to define key metrics and ensure their consistent calculation and usage across the organization.
• Analyst & Self-serve Enablement: Develop and maintain documentation, tools, and processes that empower analysts to access and utilise data effectively.
• Agentic Analytics Enablement & Governance: Curate and maintain semantic and knowledge layers powering AI analytics solutions; drive enablement and adoption while tracking performance.
• Performance Optimisation: Monitor and optimize data processes / pipelines and queries to ensure efficient data delivery.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data Modeling

ETL/ELT

Data Warehousing

Python

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Langfuse

Phoenix

Job description

foodpanda is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to shape data foundations and drive data-driven decisions across the organization. You will design, develop, and maintain core data models, data marts, semantic layers, and knowledge layers powering AI agents across Product, Marketing, Logistics, and Finance.

You will champion data quality, governance, observability, and best practices to ensure reliable, scalable data foundations.