Lead Data Platform Architect: Snowflake and Cloud Backend

Referment; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment, a capital markets fintech, seeks a Lead Software Developer to set the technical direction for a modern cloud data platform. You will lead data architecture, drive Snowflake adoption and own cross-team data pipelines while mentoring engineers across multiple squads.

The role combines hands-on software development with cloud-native design in AWS, Java services, Python tooling and data warehousing. Collaboration and leadership are essential to shape enterprise analytics strategy.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical projects with minimal supervision.
• Strong relational database expertise (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), including query optimisation and performance tuning for transactional applications.
• Strong experience designing, implementing and operating Snowflake-based data platforms in production.
• Solid grounding in data engineering, data warehousing, dimensional modelling and OLAP concepts.
• Strong Java development using Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong AWS experience across services such as EC2, S3, Lambda and Step Functions, plus infrastructure as code.
• Strong Python for automation, orchestration and data engineering.
• Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Strong communication, mentoring and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence technical direction beyond your own team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the data platform architecture, setting standards across storage, integration, analytics and governance.
• Drive adoption of Snowflake-based solutions for reporting, analytics, AI-enabled data products and enterprise data warehousing.
• Own database architecture, performance tuning, operational excellence and cost optimisation across Snowflake, PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Design and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation and integration pipelines.
• Build analytics and self-service reporting capabilities, including semantic models and BI platform integration.
• Partner with backend engineers on scalable Java services, APIs and distributed systems, and contribute to cloud-native development on AWS with modern DevOps practices.
• Develop Python tooling for automation, data processing and orchestration.
• Define engineering standards and platform consistency, and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Java / Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Step Functions)

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Kafka

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Referment, a capital markets fintech, seeks a Lead Software Developer to set the technical direction for a modern cloud data platform. You will lead data architecture, drive Snowflake adoption and own cross-team data pipelines while mentoring engineers across multiple squads.

The role combines hands-on software development with cloud-native design in AWS, Java services, Python tooling and data warehousing. Collaboration and leadership are essential to shape enterprise analytics strategy.