AVP, Data Platform Engineer

Overview
AVP, Data Platform Engineer - SRE, Data Strategy Group role at
GIC .
GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds with over 2,000 employees across 11 locations. We invest in more than 40 countries across asset classes and businesses. GIC offers exposure to a network of global industry leaders as a leading global long-term investor, focused on the financial future of Singapore and the communities we invest in worldwide.
Data Strategy Group
(DSG) harnesses and leverages GIC’s data to drive insights, enable investment decisions, and solve real business challenges. We build a high-performance enterprise data infrastructure and data products to support a data-driven organization.
What you will do
Operational Excellence: Provide production support for data infrastructure platforms, including incident and emergency response management, availability management, change management, configuration management, and documentation.
Automation: Identify opportunities to automate operational tasks, streamline deployments via CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response to reduce manual intervention.
Monitoring & Observability: Design and implement metrics collection from monitoring systems (e.g., Datadog) to guide performance tuning and fault-finding efforts.
Performance Optimization: Analyze and improve system performance (e.g., CPU utilization, latency) of data platforms.
Securing by Design: Collaborate with internal security and infrastructure teams to ensure secure architectural design for data platforms.
Collaboration: Work with investment and technology professionals across departments to foster a collaborative environment.
What makes you a successful candidate
6+ years of relevant technology experience, preferably in financial risk services or asset management, with experience leading software development teams.
Hands-on engineering experience in:
Programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#/.NET Core)
SQL and relational databases (e.g., Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle)
Scripting for automation (e.g., Bash, PowerShell)
Monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch)
Cloud technologies & infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS, EKS, S3, Kubernetes, Terraform, KMS)
Distributed query technologies (e.g., Denodo, Presto/Trino, Starburst, Athena) – preferred
Data storage & EL/ETL processing (e.g., data lakes, data warehousing) – optional
Experience in application support practices such as incident management, capacity management, system and security administration, and database/network management, with automation experience using scripting languages.
Willingness to learn, with strong attention to detail and a passion for technology and/or finance.
Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and ability to engage with software engineers.
Ability to collaborate with cross-departmental partners to deliver business outcomes.
Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in a STEM discipline is advantageous.
Work at the Point of Impact
We strive to be forward-looking and empower teams to push boundaries, share ideas, and be heard. Our PRIME Values—Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence—guide our decisions and actions.
Flexibility at GIC
GIC offices are vibrant hubs for collaboration. We support flexibility: teams come to the office four days a week, with the option to work from home on other days as needed.
Equality and Accommodation
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities during the process. Please contact if adjustments are needed.
Learn more about our Data Strategy Group and PRIME Values
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