Senior Executive, Data Engineer

SD Guthrie Berhad

Petaling Jaya

Hybrid

MYR 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

SD Guthrie Berhad is seeking a data engineering lead to assist the Head, GCA IT & Data Analytics in defining the department’s vision, roadmap, and target architecture, ensuring alignment with policies and technology standards.

You will design and maintain robust ETL pipelines from SAP ECC6/S4HANA, IoT and external sources, build scalable analytics infrastructure, and enable self‑service analytics for audit and investigation needs.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE, Data Science or related field.
Professional certification is a plus (Data Analyst/Engineer).
Minimum 3 years in data engineering or related role.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the data engineering vision and roadmap.
Design, build and maintain ETL pipelines from SAP and other sources.
Ensure scalable, secure and cost-efficient analytics infrastructure.
Monitor data quality and optimize data workflows for performance.
Develop data models and collaborate on architecture with IT teams.
Enable self-service analytics for audit and investigation needs.
Collaborate with auditors and stakeholders across operations.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL

ELT

Data Modeling

Cloud Data Platforms

Data Warehousing

Governance

Audit & Investigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Data Science

Certified Data Analyst/Data Scientist/Data Engineer

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Tools

SAP

S/4HANA

ETL Tools

Geospatial Platforms

IoT Data

Job description

SD Guthrie Berhad (SD Guthrie) is one of the world’s leading producers of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO), representing approximately 12% of the global market share (as of 31 December 2022). With over 84,000 employees across 12 countries, we pride ourselves on innovation, sustainability, and excellence. Our operations span the entire palm oil value chain, and we are expanding into new business verticals such as green industrial parks and renewable energy. We offer enriching career opportunities supported by cutting‑edge technology and a commitment to sustainability. We are the world’s first palm oil company to have our net‑zero GHG emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Join us today, as we continue to Unlock Nature's Superpowers.

Your Mission

Strategic Alignment & Architecture: Assist the Head, GCA IT & Data Analytics in defining and executing the department’s data engineering vision, roadmap, and target architecture, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives, enterprise policies, and technology standards.
Data Pipeline & Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust Extract, Transfer & Load (ETL) pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data from diverse sources, including Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ECC6 and S/4HANA) and operational systems, IoT devices, geospatial platforms, and external data providers.
Scalable Analytics Infrastructure: Ensure that data pipelines supporting the GIGA analytics infrastructure are scalable, secure, cost‑efficient, and highly reliable to meet growing business and operational demands.
Performance & Cost Optimisation: Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously optimise data workflows to improve performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Data Storage & Management: Build, manage, and maintain GIGA’s Data Mart, data lake, and related data storage solutions to support department’s reporting, analytics, and advanced use cases.
Data Modelling & Architecture Collaboration: Develop and maintain data models that support analytics, operational reporting, and decision‑making tailored for audit and investigation activities. Collaborate closely with Group IT and Group Digital teams on data architecture decisions to support current and future data requirements.
Data Quality, Reliability & Governance: Implement data validation, testing, monitoring and observability practices to ensure data accuracy, completeness and consistency. Proactively identify and resolve data quality issues, pipeline failures and anomalies.
Stakeholder and Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Work closely with GCA auditors, data analytics specialists, data scientists, and business stakeholders across plantation’s upstream, downstream and support operations to understand data requirements related to audit and controls.
Self‑service Analytics Enablement: Enable self‑service analytics by delivering clean, trusted, and well‑documented datasets. Support reporting, dashboards, and other GIGA data consumers through coaching, knowledge sharing and technical guidance.
Advanced Analytics & Emerging Technologies: Explore, develop, and support the implementation of advanced analytics solutions, including but not limited to Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning, and AI, leveraging large structured and unstructured datasets (i.e. voice, video, text, geospatial images, and sensor data) to improve audit and investigation efficiencies.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay informed of emerging trends, tools, and best practices in data engineering and analytics, and proactively recommend improvements to enhance data capabilities and operational efficiency.
Documentation & Standards: Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation for data pipelines, data models and engineering standards for GIGA. Actively participate in analytics innovation initiatives and continuous improvement programmes

Ideal Candidate

Relevant tertiary education (minimum bachelor’s degree), primarily in Computer Science / Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent.
Professional certification or technical qualification (e.g. Certified Data Analyst, Certified Data Scientist, Certified Data Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) is a plus.
Minimum 3 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering or a related role.
Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala)
Minimum 3 years of experience with ETL / ELT tools and orchestration framework.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms and data warehouses.
Understanding of data modelling concepts and performance optimisation.

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