Job Description

The role reports to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer. The Head of Data Engineering creates and drives the data engineering strategy and manages the data engineering practice for the Business. The incumbent is responsible for the data capability including: data technology platform and architecture; business intelligence and data science enablement; as well as workforce skills and data engineering practice planning, development and reporting. Key to the role is ensuring consistent delivery of optimal data capability aligned to Group. The Head of Data Engineering leads the teams focused on the various areas of data engineering and ensures the operational stability and effectiveness of the Business Data Platform.Ensures the acquiring  and collection of data via ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data warehouse, adhering to the appropriate data platform standards.Ensures Integration of data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet the business objective.Ensures the Development and maintenance of the physical data marts and databases.Ensures automation of tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics.Ensure preparation and provision of data for advanced analytical modelling by data scientists and BI specialists.Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems.Ensures creation of change scripts and sets scripts up to be ready and implemented in production.Participate in architecture forum.Utilise various components and tools which make up the data platform for enhanced service delivery.Create requirements and design of the technical architecture, Design and development, testing, and deployment of the proposed solution.Ensure ethical usage of data and information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classificationUnderstand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy Ensure reporting of any Data Privacy Incidents and drives resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection AssessmentsManage business data in alignment to Information management principles (information architecture; metadata; master and reference data; data development and warehousing; content, document and records; data quality, storage and operations; information security and data privacy management) to ensure required standards and practices across data production, management and consumptionCreate tactical plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with Technology stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of information technology solutions to support information management requirementsProvide Analytic infrastructure or big data technologies related support to Data operations and Analytic teams.Grow online technical knowledge platform, identify best practices and develop guidelines for optimum usage of tools.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field

 

Experience

Creating a large-scale data engineering pipelines, data-based decision-making and quantitative analysis tools and softwareVisualization Tools like Tableau, Power BI, D3 and hands-on to code version control systems (git)Data architectures, pipelines, quality, and code managementExperience with SQL and NoSQL databasesCreating, testing, and supporting production software and systems Proven track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks for production systemsExperience designing and developing data lake, data warehouse, ETL and task orchestrating systems

Competencies

Strong leadership, communication, time management and interpersonal skillsLeading teams in developing production-grade data pipelines (using Spark, Flink, dbt, etc.) on web-scale datasets

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
 

21/03/25

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