Hybrid Data Engineer – Scalable Data Platforms

National Library Board; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

National Library Board (NLB) invites applications for a Data Platform Engineer to design scalable data architectures, manage data lakes and migrations, and ensure data quality across the organization. The role involves collaboration with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust data pipelines and governance.

Based at ESR BizPark @ Chai Chee, this project contract runs until 30 December 2027, offering a hybrid work environment and opportunities to impact library services through data-driven

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of data management, RDBMS and ETL experience.
• Experience with data migration projects and validation.
• Experience on AWS Platform Architecture (S3, Data Lakehouse, Glue, Athena, etc.).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of Databricks, Data pipes and Snowflake is an advantage.
• Good stakeholder communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Data Architecture Design: Collaborate with stakeholders to design scalable data architectures.
• Data Management: Set up and manage Databases and Data Lake, optimize query performance, ensure data integrity and security.
• Data Integration: Integrate data from different sources for unified analysis and reporting.
• Data Transformation and Manipulation: Perform transformations (masking, aggregations, joins, filtering).
• Data Migration: End-to-end migration planning, testing and deployment to new platform.
• Data Quality and Governance: Implement data quality checks and governance standards.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor pipelines and resolve data ingestion or storage issues.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Document processes, configurations and best practices.
• Support Data Platform Operation: Maintenance, development of features, improve pipelines.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modelling

ETL

Data governance

AWS

Data Lake

Data pipelines

Communication

Education

Advanced IT qualifications or equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Airflow

Glue

DataBrew

Tableau

Qlik Sense

Job description

National Library Board (NLB) invites applications for a Data Platform Engineer to design scalable data architectures, manage data lakes and migrations, and ensure data quality across the organization. The role involves collaboration with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust data pipelines and governance.

Based at ESR BizPark @ Chai Chee, this project contract runs until 30 December 2027, offering a hybrid work environment and opportunities to impact library services through data-driven