Data Engineer (AWS, Glue, Snowflake)

Quesscorp Singapore Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Quess Selection & Services, Singapore is seeking a seasoned BAU Lead - Data Engineering to drive data operations in a cloud-first environment. You will lead a team of data engineers, deliver robust data ingest pipelines, and optimize Snowflake and AWS-based platforms.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering, hands-on AWS, Snowflake, Airflow; agile, production support, and strong collaboration with data scientists and IT teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Data Engineer Experience required.
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Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day BAU data operations and production support.
• Develop and optimize data ingest pipelines to feed the data lake/warehouse.

Skills

Team leadership

AWS architecture

Snowflake

Airflow / MWAA

SQL

Python / PySpark

Cloud optimization

Data strategy

Data management

IT collaboration

Data security

Production support

Education

8+ years Data Engineer Experience

Bachelor in CS or STEM

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

MWAA (Airflow)

Snowflake

Apache Spark

Python

Kinesis / Lambda / Step Functions

Job description

We are looking for a seasoned BAU Lead - Data Engineering to lead our data operations and support function in a cloud-first environment. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical leadership, hands-on expertise in AWS and Snowflake, and proven experience in managing Business-As-Usual (BAU) data platforms, production support, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools to improve data flows between internal/external systems and the data lake/warehouse.
• Work with stakeholders to understand needs for data structure, availability, scalability, and accessibility.
• Build robust and reproducible data ingest pipelines to collect, clean, harmonize, merge, and consolidate data sources.
• Understanding existing data applications and infrastructure architecture
• Build and support new data feeds for various Data Management layers and Data Lakes
• Evaluate business needs and requirements.
• Support migration of existing data transformation jobs in Oracle, and MS-SQL to Snowflake.
• Lead the migration of the existing data transformation jobs in Oracle, Hive, Impala etc. into Spark, Python on Glue etc.
• Able to document the processes and steps.
• Develop and maintain datasets.
• Improve data quality and efficiency.
• Lead Business requirements and deliver accordingly.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Architect and Team on several Data Analytics projects.
• Collaborate with DevOps Engineer to improve system deployment and monitoring process.
• Experience in critical production support and how the BAU functions is preferred.

Key Skills

• Lead a team of data engineers in managing day-to-day BAU operations, production support, incident management, and platform stability.
• Strong AWS knowledge in terms of designing new architecture and providing optimized solutions for existing ones. (S3, Glue, DMS, MWAA, AMS, IAM).
• In-depth knowledge with respect to Snowflake and its architecture.
• Prefer prior Experience in BAU environment.
• Good knowledge on Airflow and MWAA.
• Hands-on experience in SQL/Python/Pyspark.
• Expertise in optimizing techniques in cloud environments.
• Should have the vision on data strategy and able to deliver the same.
• Should be able to lead the design and implementation of data management processes, including data sourcing, integration, and transformation.
• Able to manage and lead a team of data professionals, providing guidance, mentoring and foster a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on continuous improvement.
• To evaluate and recommend data-related technologies, tools, and platforms.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure seamless integration of data solutions.
• Should have experience in Implementing and enforcing data security protocols and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.

Required Qualifications

• At least 8+ years of Data Engineer Experience
• Bachelor qualification in a computer science or STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) related field.
• At least 5+ years of recent hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a Lead handling support & production issue.
• 2+ experience with large scale datasets, data lake and data warehouse technologies such as AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake. Snowflake is highly preferred.
• At least 3+ years of experience in ETL (AWS Glue), Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Lambda, Apache Airflows, Amazon Step Functions.
• Professional experience working in an agile, dynamic and customer-facing environment is required.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS) is highly preferred.
• Understanding of data streaming and scalable data processing is preferred to have.

Rajkumar Renganathan

Quess Selection & Services, Singapore

EA Licence Number: 23C2060 Registration ID is R1983662

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