Senior Solution Analyst – Data Platform

Horizontal Talent; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is looking for a Solution Analyst (data engineer) based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. This role involves managing and delivering SDLC activities for Supply Chain Planning solutions, including requirements analysis, documentation, system integration, and project management.

The ideal candidate possesses a bachelor's degree and at least five years of relevant experience, with strong communication skills and proficiency in tools like Power BI and SQL.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience in IT solution development disciplines.
• Proven experience as a data engineer in supply chain management.
• Strong oral & written communication skills; fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements.
• Assess existing systems and recommend improvements.
• Coordinate with teams for smooth integration of solutions.
• Create detailed technical documentation.

Skills

Business-to-Technical Translation

Cross-Functional Communication

Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving Skills

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science and Technology

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

DevOps Tools

Job description

The Solution Analyst (data engineer) supports the Solution Owner by managing and delivering SDLC activities, including analysis, design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, and rollout for Supply Chain Planning solutions across multiple applications and technologies. The role also provides project management for small solution changes.

Acting as a gatekeeper for application changes, the Solution Analyst will analyze business requirements, translate them into solution designs, provide effort estimates, and create functional and technical specifications. He/she will need to document all solution design and analysis work accordingly.

The Solution Analyst will analyze the solution landscape supporting our business organizations, aiming to identify and recommend improvements to help our business run effectively, transform, and grow.

The role will include day-to-day collaboration and design discussions with the Global Planning and Analytics (GPA) organization, IT staff, and staff from all partners involved in the solution.

Primary Accountabilities / Job Scopes & Responsibilities

• Business Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand business requirements, translating them into functional and technical specifications and solution designs.
• Solution Evaluation: Assess existing systems, technologies, and processes to identify gaps and areas for improvement. Conduct feasibility studies and recommend appropriate solutions to address business challenges. Inform the requestor of the cost and time estimate.
• Solution Design and Development: Develop comprehensive solution designs, considering both technical and business aspects. Ensure alignment with organizational goals, standards and best practices. Participate in development activities.
• System Integration: Coordinate with development teams and vendors to ensure smooth integration of new solutions with existing systems. Participate in system testing, troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Documentation: Create detailed technical documentation, including system architecture, requirements specifications, user guides and training materials.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with business users, IT teams and external stakeholders to gather feedback, address concerns, and ensure successful implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Project Management: Participate in project planning and execution, including task estimation, resource allocation, progress tracking and risk management.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Proactively identify opportunities to enhance systems, streamline processes and optimize business outcomes.
• Support the Product Lifecycle Management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Science and Technology
• Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including architecture and application design/development.
• Proven experience as a data engineer or in a similar role within the supply chain management domain.
• Business-to-Technical Translation: Ability to clearly translate business requirements into actionable technical specifications, ensuring alignment between stakeholder needs and development efforts.
• Business & System Knowledge: Develop and leverage deep understanding of company data structures, processes, and systems to effectively diagnose issues and support solution delivery—beyond what can be learned through general technical training.
• End-to-End Data Flow Understanding: Demonstrated capability to follow and validate data lineage, ensuring accuracy and consistency across reporting layers and identifying where data issues originate.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills: Ability to independently analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and trace problems end-to-end across the data pipeline—from business-facing reports through semantic models and queries to underlying data sources (e.g., Power BI, Databricks, Oracle, SQL).
• Cross-Functional Communication: Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, developers, and data teams to define problems, clarify requirements, and drive solutions to completion.
• Proven knowledge and practical experience of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks.
• Ability to work proactively and independently and deliver multiple projects and support activities with minimal supervision.
• Strong oral & written communication skills
• Fluent in English
• Team player with experience working in global environments and distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Willingness to develop oneself and strong ability to learn fast

Desired Skills

• Experience in business process knowledge within one or more of the following industry sectors: transportation management, supply chain management, logistics
• 3+ years experience designing/building solutions in hybrid environments.
• 3+ years experience writing and understanding SQL.
• 3+ years developing and building reports in PowerBI/Fabric.
• 3+ years experience in Azure technologies (Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, etc.)
• Knowledge on Azure functions, Batch, Active Directory, KeyVault etc.
• Experience with DevOps tools (Azure DevOps services – preferred, JIRA, CI/CD etc.)
• Knowledge on version control tools (Git/Gitlab/Bit bucket/GitHub)