Senior Data Engineer

G-AsiaPacific; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

G-AsiaPacific is seeking a hands-on Mid-Level Data Engineer with 3–5 years of solid experience, primarily in AWS, who can blend data engineering with customer-facing consulting and presales-to-delivery engagement.

The role requires someone who can understand customer challenges, assess their data landscape, design practical solutions, and work closely with Sales, Solution Architects (SA), Technology and Delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Data Engineering experience.
• Strong AWS data services experience.
• Proficient in SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of data modeling and data warehousing.
• Experience with Spark/PySpark preferred.
• Exposure to ML data engineering.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Able to run customer workshops.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data warehouses and data lakes.
• Hands-on with AWS data services including Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR/Spark.
• Develop data solutions using SQL, Python and Spark.
• Conduct Data Discovery, Assessment and Workshops with customers.
• Analyze data environments and recommend consolidation, migration and analytics approaches.
• Support presales activities including discovery, proposals, POCs and presentations.
• Navigate Presales - Solution Architecture - Engineering - Delivery to ensure smooth handover.
• Collaborate with Sales/SA/Technology/Delivery to translate business challenges into scalable solutions.
• Support ML/AI use cases by preparing data pipelines and datasets.
• Troubleshoot and optimize data workloads for performance and cost.
• Remain customer-focused and ensure the solution meets business outcomes.

Skills

Data engineering

AWS

SQL

Python

Spark

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Consulting

Tools

Amazon Redshift

S3

Glue

Lambda

Athena

EMR/Spark

Job description

We are looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer with 3–5 years of solid experience, primarily in AWS, who can combine hands‑on data engineering with customer‑facing consulting and presales‑to‑delivery engagement. The role requires someone who can understand customer challenges, assess their data landscape, design practical solutions, and work closely with Sales, Solution Architects (SA), Technology and Delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and optimize data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data warehouses and data lakes.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS data services, especially Amazon Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR/Spark and related services.
• Develop data solutions using SQL, Python, PySpark/Spark and modern data engineering practices.
• Conduct Data Discovery, Data Assessment and Data Workshops with customers to understand current architecture, data sources, data quality and business requirements.
• Analyze customer data environments and recommend approaches for data consolidation, integration, migration, modernization and analytics.
• Support presales activities, including discovery sessions, solution discussions, technical proposals, effort estimation, POCs and customer presentations.
• Navigate the customer journey from Presales - Solution Architecture - Engineering - Delivery/Post‑Sales, ensuring smooth handover and alignment.
• Work with Sales, SA, Technology and Delivery teams to translate business challenges into feasible and scalable technical solutions.
• Support Machine Learning / AI use cases by preparing data pipelines, datasets and data platforms required for model development and deployment.
• Troubleshoot, optimize and improve data workloads for performance, scalability, reliability and cost.
• Remain customer‑focused and ensure that the proposed technology ultimately solves the customer’s business and technical challenge.

Required Skills:

• 3–5 years of Data Engineering experience with strong hands‑on delivery capability.
• Strong AWS experience, particularly Amazon Redshift and AWS data/analytics services.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with practical ETL/ELT and data pipeline experience.
• Good understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, data lakes, data integration and data quality.
• Experience with Spark/PySpark is preferred.
• Exposure to Machine Learning / AI data engineering requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Comfortable conducting customer workshops and presenting technical solutions.

Good to have:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Exposure to Azure Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks, BigQuery, Dataflow or equivalent technologies.
• Experience in consulting, system integration or customer‑facing technology roles.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, CI/CD and modern cloud data architectures.

Ideal Candidate:

• A hands‑on Data Engineer who can also think like a consultant, which someone who can understand the customer’s problem, assess and consolidate data, design the right solution, support presales, collaborate across Sales/SA/Technology/Delivery, and stay focused on achieving the customer’s desired business outcome.