Singtel

Lead Data Engineer

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4 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and evolution of enterprise-scale data platforms for AI, advanced analytics, and autonomous network use cases.
  • Establish reusable data products and platform services to reduce one-off integrations and accelerate delivery.
  • Design and lead scalable data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving patterns for structured, semi-structured, and streaming data.
  • Own technical architecture for batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing across cloud-native and on-premise environments.
  • Drive DataOps practices including automated testing, deployment, monitoring, lineage, data quality checks, and operational observability.
  • Define engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and design patterns for data products and platform services.
  • Enable AI and GenAI workloads through production-grade datasets, feature pipelines, retrieval data flows, vector stores, and related data services.
  • Lead architecture and code reviews and guide teams on performance, resilience, security, and cost optimization.
  • Partner with product, network, AI, and enterprise architecture stakeholders to develop an executable data platform roadmap.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption based on value, interoperability, operational fit, and total cost of ownership.
  • Coach and mentor engineers and promote a culture of ownership, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of relevant experience in data engineering, software engineering, or data platform engineering, including substantial experience leading solution design or technical delivery.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Working knowledge of Java and/or Scala is beneficial.
  • Strong experience with distributed data processing and streaming technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, and/or Flink.
  • Experience designing cloud-native data platforms using one or more major cloud ecosystems and modern lakehouse or data warehouse technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with container platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code, such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, metadata, lineage, security, and governance principles.
  • Ability to communicate architecture decisions clearly and influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.

Benefits

  • Singtel offers continuous learning, career growth opportunities, meaningful work, and support at enterprise scale.

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About Singtel

5,001-10,000 employees

Singtel is a Singapore‑headquartered public telecommunications group founded in 1879 that sells mobile, broadband, and enterprise network services to consumers and businesses across Asia-Pacific. It owns Optus in Australia and operates NCS (regional IT services) and Nxera (data centers), and is expanding into AI infrastructure via its RE:AI GPU‑as‑a‑Service. Its revenue comes from connectivity subscriptions and managed services across networks, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital platforms, with equity stakes in regional operators broadening its reach.

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