Rail Data Architect: Scalable Data Lakes & Governance

Hitachi Rail; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and govern scalable data architectures supporting asset management and predictive maintenance in the rail domain.

The role involves defining end-to-end data architecture, enabling data platforms, and ensuring governance, security, and high performance across ingestion to consumption layers. Collaboration with stakeholders and leadership across data initiatives is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field.
• Strong experience in data architecture and data platform design.
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data architectures.
• Experience with data lakes, data warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and data quality.
• Familiarity with data security principles, including IAM and encryption.
• Experience with DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, and automation for data pipelines.
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalable data architectures.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability for data platforms.
• Exposure to predictive analytics or data-driven solutions is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Proficiency in Italian would be an advantage for communication with Italian-speaking stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and design end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions.
• Develop and maintain data models (conceptual, logical, physical) to support analytics and operational use cases.
• Design and enable data platforms (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouse architectures) for structured and unstructured data.
• Establish data integration frameworks, including ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, and streaming solutions.
• Ensure data governance, quality, lineage, and compliance across the data lifecycle.
• Embed data security principles (access control, encryption) into architecture design.
• Support predictive analytics and data-driven use cases through well-structured and accessible data environments.
• Provide technical leadership across data initiatives, ensuring best practices and standards are applied.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on data strategy and architecture.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Data security & IAM

DevOps/DataOps

Distributed systems

Analytical communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Italian language (advantage)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Spark

Data lakes/warehouses/lakehouse

APIs/Streaming/Messaging

Monitoring/Observability tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and govern scalable data architectures supporting asset management and predictive maintenance in the rail domain.

The role involves defining end-to-end data architecture, enabling data platforms, and ensuring governance, security, and high performance across ingestion to consumption layers. Collaboration with stakeholders and leadership across data initiatives is required.