Senior Data Engineer - Transport AI Data Pipelines

LTA Land Transport Authority; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The LTA Land Transport Authority in Singapore is hiring a Senior/Executive Data Engineer for the Transport AI Programme. You will design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines supporting AI models across real-time and batch data sources from transport networks.

You'll collaborate with AI developers, data scientists, and infrastructure engineers to ensure data quality, governance, and availability within a cloud-enabled, hybrid environment, enabling AI-driven insights for ops and

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with hands-on data engineering.
• Experience with modern data pipeline frameworks and cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines ingesting diverse transport data (real-time and batch).
• Develop data models, data catalogues, and feature stores to support AI model training and inference.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance across the data platform with validation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Implement data governance per government data classification, including access controls, masking, anonymisation, and audit logging.
• Collaborate with AI architects, data scientists, and engineers to translate data needs into robust data products.
• Support integration of external data sources with industry partners abiding by security and interoperability standards.
• Contribute to shared data platforms and reusable assets across AI use cases.
• Monitor data pipelines in production and drive continuous improvement in data reliability and freshness.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ Data Science/ Business Analytics or related field

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Kafka

dbt

Airflow

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

Google Dataflow

Databricks

Job description

The LTA Land Transport Authority in Singapore is hiring a Senior/Executive Data Engineer for the Transport AI Programme. You will design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines supporting AI models across real-time and batch data sources from transport networks.

You'll collaborate with AI developers, data scientists, and infrastructure engineers to ensure data quality, governance, and availability within a cloud-enabled, hybrid environment, enabling AI-driven insights for ops and