Senior Data Engineer, Data Foundation & Governance

re-zoo-me; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CFGI is standing up its Data & AI build team in Singapore and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to design and operate governed end-to-end data pipelines for AI readiness. You will work with AI engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders across APAC, delivering auditable data foundations and semantic layers.

The role is hybrid in Singapore with travel across Asia-Pacific; experience with data privacy and governance for regulated industries is valued.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5–10 years of hands-on data-engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines and platforms.
• Experience delivering data work end-to-end to a production standard, including designing and operating governed pipelines and platforms.
• Client-facing or executive-stakeholder delivery experience with ability to explain data design clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the data foundation for AI and analytics solutions.
• Design and engineer ingestion, pipelines, lakehouse, and data-quality/governance controls.
• Prepare data for AI agents, retrieval systems and models.
• Design, build and operate data ingestion/integration pipelines from client source systems.
• Maintain the lakehouse/warehouse and transformation layer with version-controlled transformations.
• Maintain a governed semantic layer for consistent business logic and metrics.
• Provide AI-ready data for engineering teams including curated datasets.
• Partner with AI engineers on data contracts and interfaces.
• Own data quality, master data and lineage end-to-end.
• Embed data governance and privacy per region and legal rules.
• Carry ownership of data architecture at engagements and contribute reusable components.
• Mentor junior data resources as team grows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Stakeholder communication

End-to-end data pipelines

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Iceberg

Delta Lake

dbt

Dagster

Apache Airflow

dbt Cloud

Job description

CFGI is standing up its Data & AI build team in Singapore and seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to design and operate governed end-to-end data pipelines for AI readiness. You will work with AI engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders across APAC, delivering auditable data foundations and semantic layers.

The role is hybrid in Singapore with travel across Asia-Pacific; experience with data privacy and governance for regulated industries is valued.