OT Data Architect: Ingest, Governance & Analytics

Singtel; Singapore; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Singtel is seeking a Data Architect to own end-to-end data architecture for operational and analytics data within data centre environments. You will shape ingestion, modeling, analytics enablement and embedded governance across OT data streams such as OPC UA, BMS and PQMS.

This hands-on role requires defining standards, building core components of the data platform, and leading data governance across pipelines and semantic layers to enable trusted KPI reporting and self-serve analytics.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data architecture and engineering in industrial settings.
• Hands-on OPC UA development including clients/servers and subscriptions.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing and analytics.
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka or MQTT.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate OPC UA-based data ingestion pipelines from BMS, PQMS, PLCs, and sensors.
• Implement edge and on-premises data pipelines suitable for data centre environments.
• Manage raw and curated data layers, ensuring reliability, consistency, and performance.
• Address time-series data challenges, including sampling rates, timestamps, aggregation strategies, and late-arriving data.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise production pipelines.
• Own and evolve the end-to-end data architecture from OT source systems to analytics consumption.
• Define and standardise OPC UA connectivity and subscription patterns, buffering, and metadata structures.
• Establish non-functional requirements: availability, latency, security at OT/IT boundary.
• Transform curated OT data into analytics-ready fact and dimension models; design data marts and datasets.
• Define governance, metadata, and semantic layers to ensure trusted KPI usage and self-service analytics.
• Embed data governance, data quality rules, lineage, and access controls across pipelines.

Skills

Data Architecture

OPC UA

Python

SQL

Time-series modeling

Industrial data platforms

Tools

Kafka

MQTT

BMS

SCADA

Job description

Singtel is seeking a Data Architect to own end-to-end data architecture for operational and analytics data within data centre environments. You will shape ingestion, modeling, analytics enablement and embedded governance across OT data streams such as OPC UA, BMS and PQMS.

This hands-on role requires defining standards, building core components of the data platform, and leading data governance across pipelines and semantic layers to enable trusted KPI reporting and self-serve analytics.