Head of Data, AI & Analytics Strategy

Hyppies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyppies in Singapore is seeking a Director of Data to own the enterprise data agenda end to end, spanning strategy, governance, analytics, and AI enablement. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and collaborate across Product, Engineering, AI, and Compliance to deliver a governed, scalable data platform on-site in Singapore.

The role demands a hands‑on leader with deep experience across databases, data platforms, and AI data pipelines, able to translate architecture into measurable business

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience across database management, data engineering, data platforms, analytics, or AI data, including significant leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise‑wide data and AI enablement strategy, target architecture, operating model, and multi‑year roadmap.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability across database management, data engineering, governance, BI, analytics, and AI data products.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a high‑performing multidisciplinary data organisation.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, AI, Operations, Compliance, Security, and Infrastructure stakeholders to align data priorities with business goals.
• Prioritise data investments by weighing business value, regulatory obligations, operational risk, and readiness for AI adoption.
• Own the architecture, administration, security, reliability, and lifecycle management of production databases.
• Set standards for database design, schema management, performance tuning, capacity planning, upgrades, patching, and change control.
• Ensure mission‑critical databases meet agreed availability, performance, backup, recovery, RTO, and RPO targets.
• Implement database monitoring, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational runbooks.
• Optimise database performance and cost without weakening reliability or security.
• Lead delivery of a secure, scalable, cloud‑based data platform.
• Establish data warehouse, lakehouse, ETL/ELT, real‑time streaming, orchestration, and data‑serving capabilities.
• Define standards for data modelling, integration, testing, metadata, lineage, documentation, and lifecycle management.
• Build reusable, governed data products consumed by applications, analytics, AI models, and agents.
• Establish the trusted data foundation required for generative AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, and enterprise agents.
• Build governed pipelines for preparing, enriching, labelling, indexing, and serving structured and unstructured data to AI applications.
• Enable patterns and technologies including RAG, vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, feature stores, knowledge graphs, and real‑time AI data services.
• Govern AI datasets across provenance, consent, access, retention, intellectual property, and permitted usage.
• Partner with AI and application teams to evaluate model inputs, retrieval quality, grounding, traceability, and output reliability.
• Build monitoring for AI data pipelines, knowledge freshness, retrieval accuracy, data drift, and usage.
• Establish a consistent enterprise BI framework with trusted metrics, standardised definitions, and governed data models.

Skills

Leadership

Data strategy

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder management

AI data pipelines

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

RDS/Aurora

DynamoDB

Redis

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Spark

LLM platforms

MLflow

Job description

Hyppies in Singapore is seeking a Director of Data to own the enterprise data agenda end to end, spanning strategy, governance, analytics, and AI enablement. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and collaborate across Product, Engineering, AI, and Compliance to deliver a governed, scalable data platform on-site in Singapore.

The role demands a hands‑on leader with deep experience across databases, data platforms, and AI data pipelines, able to translate architecture into measurable business