Senior Data Engineer — Transport AI Platform

Public Service Division; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore is seeking a Senior/Executive/Data Engineer for the Transport AI Programme. You will design, build, and maintain data infrastructure enabling AI models and applications across real-time and batch data streams.

You will collaborate with AI software developers, architects, and infrastructure engineers to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable data products in a cloud/hybrid setup, supporting multiple AI use cases in a critical transport environment.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of relevant professional experience in data engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with hands-on experience in modern data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and data warehousing or lakehouse architectures.
• Familiarity with real-time/streaming data processing is advantageous.
• Experience building data pipelines for ML/AI workloads; governance and metadata management help set candidates apart.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines ingesting data from diverse sources.
• Develop data models, catalogs, and feature stores for AI model training and inference.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, monitoring, and alerting across the data platform.
• Implement data governance with access controls, masking, anonymisation, and audit logging.
• Work with AI architects to design cost-efficient data infrastructure in cloud/hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with data scientists to translate data needs into robust data products.
• Assist integration of external data sources with partner ecosystems to meet security and interoperability standards.
• Contribute to shared data platforms and reusable assets for multiple AI use cases.
• Monitor and maintain pipelines in production and support incident response.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Kafka

dbt

Airflow

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Data quality

Regulatory experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

Google Dataflow

Job description

Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore is seeking a Senior/Executive/Data Engineer for the Transport AI Programme. You will design, build, and maintain data infrastructure enabling AI models and applications across real-time and batch data streams.

You will collaborate with AI software developers, architects, and infrastructure engineers to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable data products in a cloud/hybrid setup, supporting multiple AI use cases in a critical transport environment.