Senior Data Engineer — End-to-End Platform Lead (12M)

Powtech Solution; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora Malaysia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own our data platform and build infrastructure for operational analytics, governance, and emerging AI capabilities. You will design end-to-end data pipelines and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure data quality and performance.

This fixed-term 12-month contract offers autonomy and opportunities to shape platform architecture, data models, and deployment strategies, with emphasis on secure, scalable data systems in a

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience.
• Strong ETL/ELT pipeline design and data modeling experience.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language and production-grade systems.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms or lakehouse architectures.
• Ability to work autonomously and lead technical decisions.
• Strong communication to explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of data pipelines, from ingestion to transformation to serving.
• Design data models and storage architectures that support both operational and analytical workloads.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for data quality, observability, and governance.
• Contribute to broader product and platform architecture, working alongside other software engineers as priorities shift.
• Design systems that are extensible enough to support AI/retrieval-based features over time.
• Contribute significantly to key technical decisions, escalating trade-offs where they intersect with broader priorities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on platform and deployment decisions.
• Work with attention to data sensitivity and system constraints in a regulated environment.

Skills

Data pipeline design

Data modeling

Backend programming

System architecture

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Job description

Jora Malaysia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own our data platform and build infrastructure for operational analytics, governance, and emerging AI capabilities. You will design end-to-end data pipelines and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure data quality and performance.

This fixed-term 12-month contract offers autonomy and opportunities to shape platform architecture, data models, and deployment strategies, with emphasis on secure, scalable data systems in a