AI Consultant

NCS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS is seeking an autonomous AI Consultant to design and build the AI harness, the agent framework, and reusable engineering components for a modern data platform based on Apache Iceberg, Trino, and Parquet.

Your role enables multi-agent collaboration, task execution, state management, and end-to-end data engineering capabilities as you craft specialized agents for data discovery, ingestion, transformation, and governance, with strong emphasis on security and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, or LLM-based solutions.
• Proficiency in Python, including FastAPI, Pydantic and Pandas.
• Experience designing and implementing AI Harness or multi-agent frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain & LangGraph.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, Trino, and Parquet-based lakehouse architectures.
• Experience building data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and data governance practices.
• Experience developing REST APIs, SDKs, and reusable engineering frameworks.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational support practices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices patterns.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and operationalize enterprise-grade AI agents for data discovery, ingestion, transformation, optimization, governance, and observability.
• Familiar with modern data engineering technologies, including DuckDB, dbt, and related engineering tools for data transformation, modelling, and pipeline development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the AI Harness framework for agent orchestration, workflow execution, state management, and logging.
• Develop specialized agents for Iceberg catalog discovery, metadata generation, data ingestion, and data quality checks.
• Create Trino SQL, Iceberg table definitions, and governance artifacts.
• Ensure security, access controls, observability, and disaster recovery are built into the framework.
• Collaborate with data engineers to build reusable components and pipelines for end-to-end data workflows.
• Monitor pipelines and agents to detect failures and bottlenecks and generate alerts.

Skills

Generative AI

Python

FastAPI

LangChain

LangGraph

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Parquet

Data governance

Observability

Tools

DuckDB

dbt

REST API development

Job description

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

Job Description

Role Summary

You are an autonomous AI Consultant, responsible for creating the harness for designing and building the AI harness, agent framework, and reusable engineering components required to operate a modern data platform based on Apache Iceberg, Trino, and Parquet.

Your primary responsibility is not only to build data pipelines, but also to establish the agentic execution framework (AI Harness) that enables multiple specialized agents to collaborate, execute tasks, maintain state, orchestrate workflows, and deliver end-to-end data engineering capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

AI Harness Development

Design and implement the foundational agent framework that provides:

• Agent orchestration and coordination
• Workflow execution and state management
• Memory and context handling
• Tool and function calling
• Agent-to-agent communication
• Logging and audit trails
• Error handling and recovery
• Security and access controls
• Observability and monitoring

The harness must support autonomous and multi-agent execution patterns.

Specialized Agents Creation

The agents will need to perform the following:

• Discover Iceberg catalogs and schemas
• Generate metadata and lineage
• Ingest data from databases, APIs, files, and streams
• Register and maintain Iceberg tables
• Generate Trino SQL
• Build transformation workflows
• Create curated and business-ready datasets
• Validate schemas and data integrity
• Detect anomalies
• Analyze Trino workloads
• Recommend partitioning strategies
• Optimize Iceberg tables and Parquet files
• Classify sensitive information
• Manage metadata and lineage
• Apply retention and compliance policies
• Monitor pipelines and agent activities
• Detect failures and bottlenecks
• Generate alerts and operational insights
• Iceberg table definitions and schemas
• Trino SQL scripts and views
• Metadata and lineage documentation
• Monitoring and observability configurations
• Technical documentation and runbooks

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

The candidate should demonstrate expertise in:

• Experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, or LLM-based solutions.
• Proficiency in Python, including FastAPI, Pydantic and Pandas.
• Experience designing and implementing AI Harness or multi-agent frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain & LangGraph.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, Trino, and Parquet-based lakehouse architectures.
• Experience building data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and data governance practices.
• Experience developing REST APIs, SDKs, and reusable engineering frameworks.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational support practices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices patterns.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and operationalize enterprise-grade AI agents for data discovery, ingestion, transformation, optimization, governance, and observability.
• Familiar with modern data engineering technologies, including DuckDB, dbt, and related engineering tools for data transformation, modelling, and pipeline development.

Additional Information

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.