12 months Contract - Senior Data Engineer (Through an External Agency Payroll Provider)

SG10 - BJB Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd., Singapore Branch; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Julius Baer Group is seeking an experienced data engineer to design and maintain scalable data pipelines and analytical data models in a cloud-centric environment. You will build backend services for real-time decisioning, reporting, and AI use cases, using Python/Scala, Spark, and SQL, while ensuring data governance and security.

Join a global technology team supporting a broad data platform across enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or related technical field; or equivalent.
• 5+ years designing and implementing data engineering solutions for enterprise-scale platforms.
• 5+ years building ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouses.
• 5+ years developing data apps/services with Python or Scala.
• 5+ years hands-on SQL experience including performance optimization.
• 3+ years with cloud data technologies, preferably Databricks on Azure.
• Strong experience with Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL).
• Experience with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across data stores.
• Solid data modelling principles understanding.
• Experience implementing CI/CD and automated deployment practices.
• Strong design, implementation, and testing skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data products, and backend services for real-time decisioning, reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Design and implement data models for analytical and operational workloads with performance and scalability in mind.
• Produce high-quality, secure, testable, and maintainable code following engineering best practices.
• Develop and maintain data governance, data quality, and monitoring solutions across the platform.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, and architecture teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and cloud best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python/Scala

SQL

Databricks on Azure

Spark/PySpark

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Data Analytics/IS

Tools

Terraform

Azure Databricks

Kafka

DBT

Delta Lake

Job description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let's shape the future of wealth management together. At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities the candidates bring, enabling them to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Our Global Products Solution (GPS) Technology department aims to strategically develop, strengthen and align the software engineering expertise and implement state of the art platforms covering Execution, Sales and Trading.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data products, and backend services supporting real-time decisioning, reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Design and implement data models for analytical and operational workloads, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Produce high-quality, secure, testable, and maintainable code following engineering best practices.
• Develop and maintain data governance, data quality, and monitoring solutions across the platform.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, and architecture teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and cloud best practices.

YOUR PROFILE

• Professional and Technical Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related technical field; or equivalent training and professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing data engineering solutions and enterprise-scale data platforms.
• 5+ years of experience building ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouses, and modern data platform architectures.
• 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining data applications and services using Python, Scala, or similar languages.
• 5+ years of hands-on SQL experience, including performance optimization, data analysis, and troubleshooting.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud data technologies, preferably Databricks on Azure.
• Strong hands-on experience building and optimizing large-scale data processing solutions using Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, Delta Lake).
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across a variety of data stores, including data warehouses, relational databases, object storage, and distributed data platforms.
• Solid understanding of data modelling principles.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
• Strong design, implementation, and testing skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in Agile delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including deployment, configuration, and management of Azure and Databricks resources.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies, including Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Event Grid, Apache Flink, or similar.
• Experience with DBT and modern data transformation frameworks.
• Experience with Data Vault 2.0 modeling methodologies.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and guide architectural and engineering decisions.

Why join Julius Baer?

At Julius Baer our employees enjoy the benefits of a global company with the support and collegiality of a much smaller one. We are growing quickly, but we remain dedicated to maintaining our accessible structure with flat hierarchies, and approachable and supportive leaders. With offices around the world, we offer an international and stimulating work environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of highly motivated colleagues, bringing the best of the bank to our clients.

Our core values of Care, Passion, and Excellence define the tone of how we interact with each other and our partners. Committed to your success Whether nurturing young talent with our renowned apprentice scheme, enabling ambitious university graduates to put theory into practice with our Graduate Programme, or providing first-class opportunities for experienced professionals, we look after our employees.

We believe in continuous learning as a company and as individuals, which is why we put a focus on the health and well-being of our employees and offer flexible working options, a wide array of benefits, and extensive career development programmes.

Headquartered in Zurich, we are present in around 60 locations worldwide, including Bangkok, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Mumbai, Santiago de Chile, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

The international reference in wealth management Julius Baer is the leading Swiss wealth management group. We focus on servicing and advising sophisticated private clients from around the world, taking into account what truly matters to them - in their business and personal life, today and for future generations.