Principal / Senior Data Engineer

6clicks Pty Ltd; Metro Manila; On-site; USD 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company at the forefront of AI and cloud-native architecture as a Principal Data Engineer. You'll drive the technical vision and develop data solutions for a next-gen GRC platform that addresses complex client needs across global regions. This high-impact role enables AI insights and automates compliance workflows, requiring extensive experience in analytics, data security, and engineering leadership in a high-growth SaaS environment. If you are resourceful, proactive, and skilled in fostering collaboration, this opportunity offers a chance to shape a revolutionary product.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of relevant work experience required.
• Prior experience in a principal, staff, or lead engineer role.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead data architecture design for scalability and performance.
• Mentor data engineers and guide team projects.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries and reports as per requirements.

Skills

Data Architecture

Cloud Deployment

Data Security

Compliance

ETL Pipelines

AI/ML Understanding

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Master’s in Data Analytics or related field

Tools

DBT

Azure Synapse

SQL Server

Yellowfin

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of our next-generation GRC data platform. You’ll work at the intersection of AI and cloud-native architecture for building custom data solutions that addresses user critical problems and help us scale intelligent, secure, and resilient data systems across multiple global regions.

You will play a key role in enabling AI-driven insights, automating compliance workflows, and ensuring our platform remains robust and audit-ready for regulated industries.

Key responsibilities

Data Architecture & Engineering Leadership:

• Responsible for identifying, analysing, and conducting the client's business requirements gap analysis and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.

• Guide and support the Data Engineer in the team for executing on projects involving technology upgrade and implementing optimizations wherever appropriate.

• Define data architecture for scalability, performance and cost-efficiency

• Evaluate and implement new technologies that facilitates or simplifies the end-to-end data lifecycle targeted for reporting and AI use cases

• Documenting the information gathered during the data requirements workshop and preparing the solution architecture documents.

• Partnering with internal stakeholders that includes heads of product, engineering and customer success to identify and streamline priorities and execute it with the team for delivering data processes and products.

• Act as a technical authority providing guidance on data modelling, schema design, metadata management and governance

• Mentor data engineers on the team and help grow the technical capabilities of the data team

• Promote best practices in the ELT processes and the accompanying CI/CD and DevOps for data

• Developing and maintaining SQL queries using various tools, like DBT, Azure Synapse, SQL server, etc. in line with business and customer requirements.

• Developing and maintaining reports in various business intelligence (BI) platforms, including Yellowfin, in line with business and customer requirements.

• Using project management methodologies, principles and techniques, developing project plans and estimate the required effort (cost) and resources

• Working with the broader engineering and product team and other stakeholders on troubleshooting, investigating, and remediating reporting bugs and issues.

• Analysing data and actively coordinating with stakeholders to evaluate the inefficiencies of business process and to ensure that they are accurately updated to eliminate any potential issues.

• Implementing enterprise data warehouse infrastructure and managing the data pipelines feeding into analytics and advanced AI powered analytics subsystems

AI/ML Enablement:

• Design ML-ready data systems that feed into the 6Clicks AI system, including feature stores, training pipelines and inference-serving infrastructure.

• Collaborate with the AI engineering, core engineering and product teams to operationalize models that facilitate automation in the GRC processes

• Partner with product, AI/ML, and platform teams to deliver data solutions that directly power client-facing features

• Set technical direction and best practices for the data engineering functions that drive AI/ML functionalities

• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead critical platform upgrades or migrations that will accelerate AI/ML feature development

What you bring

• Preferred candidate with master’s in data analytics or related field of study.

• Minimum 12-15 years of relevant work experience.

• Prior experience in a principal, staff or lead engineer role within high-growth SaaS or enterprise tech environments

• Strong understanding of data security, compliance, and multi-region cloud deployments

• Proven experience in designing and developing ETL pipelines using cloud-based technologies.

• Experience integrating data from multiple sources, including SQL databases, Excel spreadsheets, and APIs.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team. Ability to relate to people, understand their needs and align it with proposed solutions.

• Previous experience in GRC or GRC technologies is a plus.

Who you are

• Resourceful, proactive, and outcome-oriented.

• Resilient in fast-paced, entrepreneurial settings.

• Able to build strong, influential relationships across teams and levels.

• Skilled at bringing people along on the product journey and vision.

Why join 6clicks?

6clicks is transforming cyber risk and compliance with the industry’s first AI-powered GRC platform and pioneering Hub & Spoke architecture — purpose-built for federated enterprises, advisors, and MSPs.

Digital transformation is redefining every industry, from health, education, and finance to agriculture, mining, and transport. We believe that for new technologies to be successfully adopted and safely embedded into our way of life, we must address the issues of trustworthiness and reliability.

Organizations selling and operating these technologies must demonstrate that they have considered relevant threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. They must also demonstrate compliance with the applicable standards, laws, and regulations. Each organization must not only address these issues for itself, but across its entire supply chain.

We are on a mission to improve cyber, risk, and compliance practices. By doing so, we can better connect people with technology, to ensure that this technology lives up to expectations both in terms of maximizing benefits and minimizing downside.

6Clicks is revolutionizing the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) landscape with next-gen automation and AI. Trusted by governments, financial institutions, and enterprise risk teams, we deliver end-to-end solutions powered by deep domain expertise and cutting-edge technology.

Trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations — including Accenture, Tata Consulting Services, NTT, and Telstra — we’re disrupting traditional GRC with a modern, channel-aligned model, transparent licensing, and global deployment flexibility.

With operations across APAC, EMEA, and North America, 6clicks is your chance to shape the future of cyber risk while working on technology that’s setting a new industry standard.