Director, Data Foundation & Ontology Platform

Univers; Singapore; On-site; SGD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Univers seeks a Director of Product Management, Data Foundation & Ontology to lead the engineering organization building the trusted data foundation of the Univers AI Platform. You will shape architecture, strategy and execution for data integration, ontology and semantic services across IT/OT/IoT environments.

You will build and mentor a high-performing team spanning data platform, integration, ontology, developer experience and SRE, setting standards for security, governance and reliability

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or distributed platform development.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams and managers.
• Proven record building scalable enterprise data or platform products.
• Experience recruiting and developing high-performing teams.
• Deep expertise in modern data platforms: batch/streaming, catalogs, governance.
• Experience integrating IT/OT/IoT data.
• Strong knowledge of semantic modeling and knowledge graphs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and multi-year roadmap for data foundation and ontology.
• Own end-to-end platform delivery including connectors and data governance.
• Partner with engineering and domain leaders to translate needs into plans.
• Lead engineering organization design and hiring.
• Ensure security, governance and reliability across the platform.
• Engage with enterprise customers to understand deployment constraints.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Distributed platforms

Team leadership

Data platforms

Semantic modeling

Knowledge graphs

Ontology

API design

Cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Software Eng or related

Job description

Univers seeks a Director of Product Management, Data Foundation & Ontology to lead the engineering organization building the trusted data foundation of the Univers AI Platform. You will shape architecture, strategy and execution for data integration, ontology and semantic services across IT/OT/IoT environments.

You will build and mentor a high-performing team spanning data platform, integration, ontology, developer experience and SRE, setting standards for security, governance and reliability