Senior Data Engineer, Data & AI Platform (APAC)

CFGI; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CFGI is assembling a Data & AI build team in APAC in Malaysia and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to design and run governed pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse, and semantic layers for AI-ready data.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders across APAC, ensuring data quality, privacy, and audit-ready lineage in a hybrid Malaysia-based role with travel across Asia-Pacific.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5–10 years of hands-on data-engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the data foundation for client AI and analytics solutions.
• Design and maintain ingestion, pipelines, lakehouse, semantic layer, and data-quality controls.
• Work with AI engineers to prepare data for models and retrieval systems.
• Own data quality, lineage, and governance across engagements.
• Embed data governance and privacy per APAC data-residency rules.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

dbt Cloud

Dagster

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Job description

CFGI is assembling a Data & AI build team in APAC in Malaysia and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to design and run governed pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse, and semantic layers for AI-ready data.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders across APAC, ensuring data quality, privacy, and audit-ready lineage in a hybrid Malaysia-based role with travel across Asia-Pacific.