Senior AVP, Data Platform & Real-Time Intelligence

StarHub Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

StarHub Ltd. is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Data Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and delivery of a real-time data fabric powering network, customer, and operational intelligence.

You will unite telemetry across RAN, Core, Transport, and Fixed Access with OSS/BSS, lead a team of engineers, and drive a product mindset toward trustworthy, AI-ready data. The role emphasizes security, governance, and scalable pipelines.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data/platform engineering.
• 4+ years leadership experience in telecom/large-scale data environments.
• Expertise in distributed data systems, lakehouse architecture, and streaming.
• Familiarity with network telemetry (gNMI, IPFIX, CDR/xDR) and OSS/BSS.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data platform strategy, architecture, and delivery.
• Lead a team of data/platform engineers with a product mindset.
• Build and govern real-time data fabric across telemetry and customer data.
• Define data governance, security controls, and PDPA compliance.
• Develop feature stores and ML data foundations for AI initiatives.

Skills

Data platforms

Team leadership

Cloud-native

Streaming (Kafka)

gNMI/IPFIX

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/related

PhD (nice to have)

Tools

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

StarHub Ltd. is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Data Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and delivery of a real-time data fabric powering network, customer, and operational intelligence.

You will unite telemetry across RAN, Core, Transport, and Fixed Access with OSS/BSS, lead a team of engineers, and drive a product mindset toward trustworthy, AI-ready data. The role emphasizes security, governance, and scalable pipelines.