AI-Driven Data Platform Architect

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in Singapore is hiring a senior data platform architect to design and scale data, AI, and analytics capabilities across the business. You will shape the governance, data modelling, and API interfaces that empower real-time decisioning for global operations.

You will collaborate with Data Science, AI Engineering, Product, and Risk teams while leading design reviews and mentoring engineers on a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data systems.
• Hands-on Databricks ecosystem experience including Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
• Experience implementing semantic layers or metric stores for consistent reporting.
• Strong understanding of AI and agent-based data consumption and API/data services.
• Experience meeting regional data residency and compliance requirements.
• Senior-level contributor with experience leading design reviews and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect governed, reusable data, knowledge, and skills layers to power analytics and AI agents.
• Define scalable patterns for datasets, semantic models, and analytical workflows.
• Lead data modelling efforts and define Agent Interfaces via APIs and tools.
• Embed lineage and quality controls through Governance-as-Code.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews.

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Spark

Kafka

APIs

Governance

Job description

Airwallex in Singapore is hiring a senior data platform architect to design and scale data, AI, and analytics capabilities across the business. You will shape the governance, data modelling, and API interfaces that empower real-time decisioning for global operations.

You will collaborate with Data Science, AI Engineering, Product, and Risk teams while leading design reviews and mentoring engineers on a globally distributed team.