Senior Data Platform Architect — Snowflake & AWS

Referment; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a capital markets fintech to shape a cloud data platform that underpins analytics products for derivatives pricing and risk management.

The Lead Software Developer will steer the data platform architecture, champion Snowflake-based solutions, and collaborate with backend teams on Java services and AWS DevOps. This role demands senior leadership and hands-on expertise in data engineering and analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong experience with Snowflake-based data platforms in production.
• Expertise in Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs and AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the data platform architecture, setting standards across storage, integration, analytics and governance.
• Drive adoption of Snowflake-based solutions for reporting, analytics, AI-enabled data products and enterprise data warehousing.
• Own database architecture, performance tuning, operational excellence and cost optimisation across Snowflake, PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Design and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation and integration pipelines.
• Build analytics and self-service reporting capabilities, including semantic models and BI platform integration.
• Partner with backend engineers on scalable Java services, APIs and distributed systems, and contribute to cloud-native development on AWS with modern DevOps practices.
• Develop Python tooling for automation, data processing and orchestration.
• Define engineering standards and platform consistency, and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

REST APIs

Microservices

Snowflake

Data Warehousing

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Data Engineering

Kafka

Distributed Systems

Mentoring

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Referment is partnering with a capital markets fintech to shape a cloud data platform that underpins analytics products for derivatives pricing and risk management.

The Lead Software Developer will steer the data platform architecture, champion Snowflake-based solutions, and collaborate with backend teams on Java services and AWS DevOps. This role demands senior leadership and hands-on expertise in data engineering and analytics.