Principal AI Data Engineer - Scalable AI Pipelines

Standard Chartered Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Competitive salary

Job summary

Standard Chartered Singapore seeks a Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines and infrastructure powering AI and agentic applications across the Bank.

The role leads end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to retrieval-ready delivery, partnering with data, engineering, AI, and platform teams to create scalable, governed data foundations for AI-driven products and automation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering or distributed systems.
• Proven experience building large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong expertise in Spark, Databricks, and lakehouse architectures.
• Knowledge of ontology development and semantic modelling.
• Experience with AI/ML data preparation and feature engineering.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines for AI workloads.
• Deliver trusted datasets for model training and retrieval.
• Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Maintain data quality, lineage, and observability.

Skills

Data engineering

Spark

Databricks

Lakehouse

NoSQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Graph databases

Vector databases

Job description

Standard Chartered Singapore seeks a Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines and infrastructure powering AI and agentic applications across the Bank.

The role leads end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to retrieval-ready delivery, partnering with data, engineering, AI, and platform teams to create scalable, governed data foundations for AI-driven products and automation.