AI Analytics Engineering Manager: Lead, Build Data Copilots

foodpanda; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

foodpanda is building an AI Center of Excellence and seeks an Analytics Engineering Manager (AI & Agentic Analytics) to lead and contribute hands-on. You will mentor analytics engineers, write code, design models, and ship LLM-powered automations that accelerate business and product teams.

As a player-coach, you will own the semantic layer in dbt and BigQuery, ensure data quality, and build observability for AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Around 5+ years in analytics engineering or data engineering with strong data modeling, ELT, and warehousing experience.
• Around 3+ years leadership or mentoring experience with analytics engineering teams
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience in designing, developing, and rollout large scale automation / data driven solutions with proven impact (LLM solution a plus).
• Hands‑on expertise with dbt and BigQuery (or equivalent platforms such as Snowflake or Redshift)
• Familiar with semantic layers, metrics frameworks, and metadata management.
• Excellent project management capabilities, including technical discovery, scope definition, resource planning, and progress tracking.
• Clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs to non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor analytics engineers while remaining hands-on with code and design.
• Ship AI that transforms how we work: Identify high-impact automation opportunities and bring them to life with LLMs.
• Own the semantic layer that powers everything: Design and maintain the metrics, entities, and metadata foundation in dbt and BigQuery that analysts and AI agents rely on.
• Make AI observable and continuously improve: Implement evaluation and monitoring frameworks using tools like Langfuse or Phoenix.
• Build and maintain a rock‑solid foundation: Own core ETL pipelines, warehouse modeling, and data quality on BigQuery.
• Partner strategically across the business: Collaborate directly with stakeholders across different business and product functions to translate complex challenges into elegant data solutions.
• Stay pragmatic with technology: Build with our proven stack—dbt, BigQuery, LlamaIndex, ADK, and n8n—while evaluating new tools that add real value. Lead with technical depth and business judgment.

Skills

Leadership

SQL

Python

dbt

BigQuery

Data Modeling

ELT

Warehousing

Metadata Management

Communication

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

n8n

LlamaIndex

ADK

Job description

foodpanda is building an AI Center of Excellence and seeks an Analytics Engineering Manager (AI & Agentic Analytics) to lead and contribute hands-on. You will mentor analytics engineers, write code, design models, and ship LLM-powered automations that accelerate business and product teams.

As a player-coach, you will own the semantic layer in dbt and BigQuery, ensure data quality, and build observability for AI initiatives.