Senior Data Engineer

Great Eastern; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern is seeking a hybrid Data Engineer to design and operate data pipelines, ML lifecycle automation, and scalable production infrastructure in AWS. You will translate data science experiments into reliable, production-grade applications while maintaining robust ETL processes.

The role emphasizes end-to-end MLOps on AWS, containerization, CloudFormation, security governance, and collaboration with data science teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end MLOps pipelines on AWS.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving in cloud environments.
• Background in DevOps or infrastructure engineering.
• Scripting or automation with Python, YAML, JSON is a plus.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end MLOps pipelines (CI/CD/CT) on AWS.
• Containerize applications and build orchestration environments.
• Maintain robust ETL pipelines for data ingestion and storage.
• Develop and manage AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Administer AWS platforms, ensuring security, availability, scalability.
• Configure and manage AWS services including IAM, VPC, Lambda, SageMaker, S3, CloudWatch.
• Collaborate with data science teams on cloud deployment and access.
• Monitor platform health, logs, metrics, and alerts; troubleshoot issues.
• Enforce cloud security, governance, and compliance best practices.
• Keep abreast of regulatory compliance and industry threats.
• Highlight potential concerns and share risk management practices.

Skills

Cloud security

Networking

Monitoring

Operational support

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Python scripting

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS core services

CloudFormation

SageMaker

IAM

VPC

Lambda

S3

CloudWatch

DataSync

Job description

As a hybrid Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building robust data pipelines, managing data versioning, automating Machine Learning (ML) model lifecycles, and scaling infrastructure in production environments. You will act as a force multiplier, translating data science experiments into reliable, highly available, production‑grade applications while maintaining robust ETL pipelines.

• Design and implement end-to-end MLOps pipelines (CI/CD/CT) to deploy, test, and maintain ML and GenAI models on AWS
• Containerize applications and build container orchestration environments
• Build, optimize, and maintain robust ETL pipelines for raw data ingestion, transformation, and storage
• Develop and manage AWS CloudFormation templates for infrastructure provisioning and environment deployment.
• Administer AWS platforms across non-production and production environments, ensuring security, availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Configure and manage AWS services including IAM, SCPs, VPC, security groups, Lambda, SageMaker, S3, DataSync, and CloudWatch.
• Collaborate with application and data science teams on cloud deployment, access setup, and platform integration.
• Monitor platform health, logs, metrics, and alerts; troubleshoot deployment, access, networking, quota, and performance issues.
• Enforce cloud security, governance, and compliance best practices (least privilege, logging, monitoring, change management).
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices

We are looking for people with

• Strong knowledge of cloud security, networking, monitoring, and operational support.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and AWS core services.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot AWS platform, deployment, access, and performance issues.
• Background in DevOps, cloud/platform engineering, or infrastructure support preferred.
• Scripting or automation experience (Python, shell, YAML, JSON) is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well‑established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.