contract consultant (data) #IAC

RECRUIT EXPRESS PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Singapore is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines. The successful candidate will have strong AWS services proficiency, including Glue and Redshift, and experience in pipeline architecture. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring data quality and governance, and implementing monitoring mechanisms. Interested applicants should contact Andre Chua Jing Ming via email.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in AWS services such as Glue, S3, Athena, Redshift.
• Experience in designing and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Solid understanding of database optimization and schema design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS services.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for data workflows.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate external datasets.

Skills

AWS services proficiency

ETL/ELT pipeline design

SQL knowledge

Python programming

DevOps practices familiarity

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS S3

AWS Redshift

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS services (Glue, Athena, S3, Redshift, Iceberg).
• Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data workflows to ensure reliability and timely issue resolution.
• Perform database and schema optimization to improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Manage data validation, taxonomy updates, and metadata consistency across pipelines and environments.
• Refactor, clean up, and maintain data jobs, tables, and legacy pipelines to align with best practices.
• Oversee infrastructure upgrades such as EKS cluster updates and database cleanup activities.
• Automate job scheduling and parameterization for flexible and efficient data processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate external datasets and ensure compliance with data governance standards.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in AWS cloud services: Glue, S3, Athena, Redshift, IAM, and EKS.
• Experience in ETL/ELT pipeline design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of SQL, Python, and data transformation frameworks.
• Knowledge of data modeling, schema design, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including automation, CI/CD, and monitoring solutions.
• Ability to manage data quality, validation, and governance processes.
• Nice to Have Experience with data cataloging and metadata management tools (e.g., AWS Glue Data Catalog, DataHub).
• Exposure to real-time or near real-time data processing.
• Knowledge of multi-layered data architectures (bronze/silver/gold or raw/staging/production).

Interested applicants, please email your resume to Andre Chua Jing Ming

Email: [e-mail]

CEI Reg No: R1989053

EA Licence No: 99C4599

Recruit Express Pte Ltd