Lead Data Engineer

In this role, you will lead the Data Engineering function, bridge build and operations, maintain strict governance standards, and ensure high-availability performance across our cloud data warehouse.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive overall strategy for Data Engineering, unifying build and operational teams to maximize output, system health, and team growth.
• Manage runtime environments, orchestration, compute, and storage optimization to maintain a performant and cost-efficient infrastructure.
• Define and enforce SLAs and freshness guarantees. Lead incident management, observability, and post-mortem reviews to keep production running seamlessly.
• Serve as the core bridge between warehouse infrastructure and downstream teams (BI, AI, business units), enforcing ingestion standards and managing schema evolution.
• Implement automated governance controls (PII masking, access policies, data lineage, cataloging) compliant with regulatory frameworks like PDPA and BNM RMiT.
• Track cost-per-asset metrics, enforce storage tiering, and build chargeback models to ensure sustainable platform scaling.
• Establish unified layering rules, naming conventions, and data modeling standards across ODS, DWD, DIM, DWS, and ADS.

What We Are Looking For

• 7+ years in Data Engineering, Data Operations, or Data Governance, including 2+ years managing production platforms and leading direct reports.
• Extensive hands-on experience maintaining high-scale cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks) in active production.
• Strong instinct for monitoring data drift, metric anomalies, and pipeline degradation before downstream consumers notice.
• Prior experience in Fintech, Banking, Telco, or E-Money, with a strong understanding of audit evidence generation, PDPA/GDPR adherence, and data residency rules.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, or TypeScript, alongside expert SQL skills and deep familiarity with dimensional modeling (Kimball, Star Schema).

Kindly note that this opportunity is currently open to local Malaysians and individuals based in Malaysia with valid working permit as EP sponsorship is currently unavailable.