Senior Data Engineer -

jobster private ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobster Private Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a data engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data architectures and pipelines across diverse source systems.

You will work with teams to develop data models, ensure data quality, and improve reliability, security, and performance of big data platforms. The role emphasizes modern engineering practices, CI/CD, and collaboration with data scientists, analysts, and product managers.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with Python and SQL.
• Experience in enterprise data architecture and engineering.
• Experience designing data pipelines and data models.
• Familiarity with data warehouses, data lakes and lake house concepts.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and modern data platforms.
• Knowledge of data orchestration and modeling tools.
• Strong production engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable data architectures and pipelines for ingesting, transforming and serving data.
• Develop robust data models and reusable data capabilities for applications, analysts, data scientists.
• Apply architectural practices to improve reliability, security, observability, performance.
• Evaluate technologies and contribute to standards evolution.
• Champion modern software engineering practices and mentor the team.
• Work cross-functionally with engineers, PMs, data scientists and analysts, providing technical leadership.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data architectures

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Data warehouses/lakes

Data orchestration

Production engineering

Code quality/CI/CD

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Spark

Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery

AWS

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable data architectures and pipelines for ingesting, transforming and serving data across diverse source systems and use cases.
• Develop robust data models and reusable data capabilities for applications, analysts, data scientists and other data consumers.
• Apply proven architectural and engineering practices to improve the reliability, security, observability, performance and maintainability of data systems.
• Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches, make sound technical trade-offs, and contribute to the evolution of the Data Programmers architecture and engineering standards.
• Champion modern software engineering practices (automated testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code) and help the team consistently meet these standards through review and coaching.
• Work cross-functionally with engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, analysts and users, while providing technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing.

What we are looking for:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience building and operating complex production data systems.
• Strong experience in enterprise data architecture and engineering, with the ability to apply established patterns and practices to new technical problems.
• Experience designing data pipelines and data models, with a strong understanding of data warehouses, data lakes and lake house architectures.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and modern data warehouse or data platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or equivalent.
• Experience with data orchestration, transformation and modelling using modern engineering approaches and tools.
• Strong understanding of production engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting and data quality.

Good to have:

• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or equivalent.
• Experience with transformation and analytics engineering frameworks such as dbt or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed data processing technologies such as Apache Spark.
• Deep experience with AWS data services and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with BI and analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI or equivalent.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, data observability, metadata, catalogue or lineage capabilities.
• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data, and an interest in using technology and data for public good.