Data Engineer

Partners Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International environment

Challenging, rewarding career

Mentorship opportunities

One-month sabbatical after every five 

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Partners Group seeks a Data Engineer to design and operate scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting transaction processing, accounting, valuation, and portfolio management. You will partner with business stakeholders and engineers to deliver trusted analytics and decision support across the Fund & Investment Management domain.

The role emphasizes data quality, governance, and secure data access, with opportunities to work on modern data platforms in a global private markets environment.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or quantitative discipline preferred.
• Experience: at least 3 years in data engineering, solution engineering, or database experience, ideally in financial services.
• Track record: building data pipelines and platforms with strong programming and SQL capability.
• Communication: excellent communicator with a team-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data ingestion, transformation, and distribution capabilities.
• Build, enhance, and maintain data platforms, datasets, and reusable data products.
• Design data structures aligned with platform standards.
• Improve availability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency of data services.
• Automate data operations, quality controls, deployment, and maintenance.
• Build data pipelines using modern orchestration tools.
• Apply engineering practices to improve data quality, lineage, and trustworthiness.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand information needs and service expectations.
• Collaborate with Solution Engineers/Architects on design; resolve data quality/interface issues.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Java/Python

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

ETL tools

Apache Airflow

Kafka

AWS

AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot/Cursor/Claude Code)

Job description

What it's about

We are one of the largest global private markets investment managers, serving over 800 institutional investors worldwide. We have USD 185 billion in assets under management and around 2,000 professionals across 24 offices worldwide. Partners Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity.

Team Context

The Fund & Investment Management platform team within the Business Applications Group is dedicated to managing the product life cycle, with a focus on delivering comprehensive solutions for transaction processing, accounting, valuation, and portfolio management for Partners Group’s direct and indirect investments. This team is instrumental in supporting investment life cycle management solutions across all asset classes, facilitating activities related to portfolio management, ESG monitoring, and investment valuation.

Role Purpose

A Data Engineer designs, builds, and supports scalable data pipelines, platforms, and information services that provide secure, trusted, and efficient access to organizational data. This role partners with business stakeholders to turn business questions into trusted analysis, reporting, and decision support within the Fund & Investment Management domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data ingestion, transformation, and distribution capabilities
• Build, enhance, and maintain data platforms, datasets, and reusable data products
• Design logical and physical data structures appropriate to the use case and platform standards
• Improve availability, performance, observability, recoverability, and cost efficiency of data services
• Automate data operations, quality controls, deployment, and maintenance activities
• Build and maintain data pipelines using modern orchestration tools
• Apply engineering practices to improve data quality, lineage, and trustworthiness

Stakeholder & Team Engagement

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand information needs and service expectations
• Collaborate with Solution Engineers and Solution Architects on integration and solution design
• Work with source-system and consuming teams to resolve quality and interface issues
• Embed access control, security, privacy, retention, and governance into data services
• Ensure data processing aligns with approved lineage, quality, and operational-control requirements

What we expect

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or quantitative discipline preferred
• Experience: At least 3 years in data engineering, solution engineering, or database experience, ideally in financial services
• Track Record: Demonstrated experience building data pipelines and platforms with strong programming and SQL capability
• Communication: Excellent communicator with team-oriented approach

Technical Expertise

• Databases: Confirmed hands-on expertise with relational databases, data warehouses, and SQL
• Data Warehousing: Deep knowledge of Snowflake
• ETL/Data Integration: Practical experience with ETL tools and data pipeline orchestration
• BI & Analytics: Understanding of BI (e.g., Qlik) and Advanced Data Analytics concepts
• Programming Languages: Strong programming skills with advanced knowledge of Java and/or Python
• Cloud Computing: AWS experience with services such as RDS, Fargate, Glue
• AI Coding Assistants: Experience with modern AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code

Good to Have

• Certification: AWS Data Engineer Specialty or AWS Solution Architect Associate
• Agile Frameworks: Experience with SAFe, Kanban, or Scrum
• Databases: Experience with PostgreSQL, MS SQL
• Orchestration Tools: Apache Airflow, Control-M
• Frontend: React and TypeScript
• Messaging & Streaming: Kafka, SQS, Amazon Kinesis

What we offer

Partners Group is a global financial institution that retains the culture, pace and agility of a start-up. As a growing firm, we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best talent, by offering a workplace where results are truly recognized and rewarded.
We offer you a fantastic opportunity for you to grow:

• Professional, international working environment
• Challenging, rewarding career within a growing company
• Collaborative environment, with on-the-job training and mentorship opportunities
• One-month sabbatical after every five years of service
• Fun office and team events, including volunteer opportunities to connect with and help our local communities

www.partnersgroup.com