Technical Lead

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.

Singapore

On-site

SGD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific PTE. LTD. in Singapore seeks an experienced Technical Lead to architect, design, and deliver a large-scale data platform on GCC using AWS services for a public sector program.

You will oversee data governance, MDM via TIBCO EBX, ETL modernization, and enterprise integrations, collaborating with public sector teams and infrastructure to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

8+ years in data engineering and solution architecture.
5+ years of AWS cloud experience.
Singapore Public Sector experience on GCC under WOG/IM8 frameworks.
Talend Data Catalog / AWS Glue Data Catalog experience.
Experience with Neo4j Graph DB is a plus.
Security standards: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, mTLS.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical design and implementation of enterprise data platforms on AWS GCC.
Define target-state architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
Drive cloud-native modernization initiatives and technology roadmap.
Work closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, Public Sector teams, and infrastructure teams.
Lead Talend ETL development and migration toward AWS-native services.
Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and performance optimization.
Implement enterprise data governance frameworks and manage metadata/ lineage catalogs.
Lead MDM administration and migration planning (TIBCO EBX to AWS-native MDM).
Design API-first integrations following Public Sector and WOG standards.
Support real-time, near real-time, and batch integration patterns.

Skills

Data engineering

Solution architecture

AWS

Public sector

ETL

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

Step Functions

EMR

Redshift

Athena

EventBridge

Talend

Neo4j

OpenAPI/Swagger

API Gateway

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to lead the design, development, and delivery of a large-scale data platform hosted on the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) using AWS Cloud services. The candidate will be responsible for end-to-end data architecture, ETL modernization, master data management, governance, and reporting solutions for a public sector program.

The ideal candidate should possess strong public sector experience, deep knowledge of Public Sector frameworks, Government cloud governance requirements, and proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions using AWS-native services and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform Leadership

Lead the technical design and implementation of enterprise data platforms on AWS GCC.
Define target-state architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
Drive cloud-native modernization initiatives and technology roadmap.
Work closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, Public Sector teams, and infrastructure teams.

Data Engineering & ETL

Design and implement large-scale data pipelines using: AWS Glue / AWS Lambda / Amazon S3 / AWS Step Functions / AWS EMR / Amazon Redshift / Amazon Athena / Amazon Event Bridge
Lead Talend ETL development and migration strategy toward AWS-native services.
Experience working with Graph DB applications using Neo4j
Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and performance optimization.

Data Governance & Catalog

Implement enterprise data governance frameworks.
Manage metadata, lineage, and catalogue solutions.
Experience with Talend Data Catalog / AWS Glue Data Catalog / Data Governance frameworks / Data Stewardship processes

Master Data Management (MDM)

Lead administration and enhancement of TIBCO EBX MDM platform.
Define migration roadmap from TIBCO EBX to AWS-native MDM architecture.
Implement master data management, golden record management, hierarchy management, and data quality frameworks.
Collaborate with business data owners and governance councils.

Application Integration

Lead the design, development, and support of enterprise application integrations across government and external systems.
Design and implement API-first architectures following Public Sector and WOG integration standards.
Develop and manage secure integrations between data platforms, MDM systems, COTS products, and downstream applications.
Ensure scalability, performance, security, and monitoring of integration services.
Support real-time, near real-time, and batch integration patterns.

Required Skills & Experience

Cloud Technologies