Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform Lead

Starhub Ltd; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

StarHub seeks a Principal Data Engineer to provide technical leadership within the DXP Data Platform. You will design, deliver, and operationalize complex data pipelines and curated datasets on a cloud-native platform, enabling trusted analytics across business domains.

You will drive production reliability, observability, and reusable engineering patterns while mentoring engineers and aligning with Data Architecture and BI stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in cloud-native data engineering.
• Strong hands-on architecture, delivery and production support on AWS and Snowflake.
• Experience partnering with BI and business teams to design modeled datasets for self-service analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex data ingestion, transformation, and curated data models across Datapipe, Snowflake, and AWS.
• Establish engineering standards across SQL, Python, DAG design, CI/CD, testing, observability and cost-aware design.
• Own production stability for critical pipelines and datasets, including incident response and RCA.

Skills

Data engineering

Technical leadership

AWS

Python

SQL

Tools

Airflow

Airbyte

Fivetran

SageMaker

Job description

StarHub seeks a Principal Data Engineer to provide technical leadership within the DXP Data Platform. You will design, deliver, and operationalize complex data pipelines and curated datasets on a cloud-native platform, enabling trusted analytics across business domains.

You will drive production reliability, observability, and reusable engineering patterns while mentoring engineers and aligning with Data Architecture and BI stakeholders.