Senior Data Engineer

Elitez Pte Ltd; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in Malaysia is seeking a Data Engineer with 4-8 years of experience. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining data pipelines using GCP services, optimizing data models, and ensuring data quality. Strong SQL and Python skills are essential. The company offers benefits including a 13th Month Bonus and staff insurance.

Benefits

13th Month Bonus

Staff Insurance Provided

Qualifications

• 4 – 8 years of hands-on experience in data engineering or ETL/ELT development.
• Strong understanding of data pipeline optimization and governance.
• Familiarity with Azure Data Stack is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines using GCP services.
• Implement and optimize data models in BigQuery for analytics and BI reporting.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure high availability and cost efficiency.

Skills

Strong SQL skills

Strong Python skills

GCP Data Stack experience

Data Modeling knowledge

Orchestration workflows experience

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Composer

Dataproc

Dataform

Airflow

Job description

13th Month Bonus

Staff Insurance Provided

Key Responsibilities

Pipeline Development: Design, build, and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines using GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Composer, Dataform, and Cloud Functions.

Data Modeling & Optimization: Implement and optimize data models in BigQuery to support analytics, BI reporting, and machine learning workloads.

Data Integration: Connect and transform data from multiple sources, including APIs, databases, event streams, and flat files.

Platform Reliability: Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Governance & Quality: Implement data validation, quality checks, and security best practices to ensure trusted data.

Collaboration: Work closely with analysts, BI developers (Tableau, MicroStrategy), and business teams to enable reporting and self-service analytics.

Legacy Support (Light): Provide occasional support for legacy systems (Oracle, MicroStrategy) where needed, focusing on data extraction and gradual modernization.

Key Requirements

Experience: 4 – 8 years of hands‑on experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT development, or related roles.

Technical Skills

• Strong SQL and Python skills for data transformation and automation.
• Hands‑on experience with GCP Data Stack (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Dataproc, Dataform).
• Familiarity with orchestration workflows (Airflow/Composer) and CI/CD for data pipelines.

Data Modeling: Understanding of relational, dimensional, and modern data modeling concepts, with an eye for performance optimization.

Cloud Knowledge: Exposure to Azure Data Stack (Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks) is a plus.

Application Questions

• Which of the following types of qualifications do you have?
• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Malaysia?
• What's your expected monthly basic salary?
• How many years' experience do you have as a Data Engineer?
• Which of the following web analytics tools are you experienced with?
• Which of the following Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) are you experienced with?