Avp/vp, Senior Data Engineer

Location: Singapore, SG- Job Function: Data Strategy Group- Job Type: Permanent- Req ID: 15580GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

We build our data architecture in a robust operational environment with scale and efficiency. Data is meaningful in a functional, discoverable, and accessible format to power GIC’s innovative investment strategies.

**Data Strategy Group**

Data Strategy Group (DSG) harnesses and leverages on GIC’s most valuable asset - Data, to drive insights, results and solve real business challenges. We ingest, analyse, and combine data with context across all industries and asset classes to enable investment decisions and enhance investment process. Together, we strive to build a high-performance enterprise data infrastructure, create results-driven approach with data products and strive to be a data-driven organization.

**Power Our Growth**

You will be part of the Research Data Engineering team, playing a key role in expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as looking after the operation and requests from multi-functional teams. In your new role, you will have the opportunity to engage in building GIC's data foundation and infrastructure with a team of forward-looking data professionals. Join us and make a difference in our data journey to shape our world of investments.

**What will you do as an AVP/VP, Senior Data Engineer?**
- Work closely with data analysts and business end-users to implement and support data platforms using best-of-breed technology and methodology.
- Design robust and scalable solutions to meet business needs and take operational considerations into account. Demonstrate technical expertise in the assigned area.
- Analyse, tackle, and resolve day-to-day operational incidents and advisory to business users
- Analyse systems operations data (service level agreements (SLA), customer satisfaction, delivery quality and team efficiency) to identify actionable trends for continual improvements.
- Conduct requirement workshop with stakeholders and analyse requirements holistically.
- Coach junior members in the team with best practice and establish internal processes to enhance the data pipeline operations.
- Work closely with data governance team to build the data quality check framework and ensure the data issues are monitored, tracked, and fixed without breaching SLA.
- Design and implement scalable data pipeline frameworks with reusability in-mind to support the growing demands from business users.
- Play an active role in the project coordinating between internal resources and third parties/vendors for project execution.

**What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- At least 8 years’ experience of working as a data engineer or backend developer in a big data field.
- Hands-on experience of using Linux (or Unix-like OS) as the development environment and familiar with shell scripts and command line tools in Linux/Unix environment.
- Exposure and knowledge in the following technologies is advantageous:

- Big Data Platforms - Hadoop (Spark, Hive, Impala, HDFS), Snowflake
- Programming and Scripting: Java, Python, Shell Script, REST API, Informatica, Node.js
- AWS
- Docker
- Data Virtualisation - Denodo
- Data Visualisation - Tableau
- Experienced with the Systems Development Life Cycle implementation methodology (SDLC) and/or agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
- Good team player, with strong analytical skills and enjoy complex problem solving with innovative ideas.
- Strong communication/people skills required to interact with data analysts, business end-users and vendors to design and develop solutions. Good at working with details and is meticulous for operations.**Work at the Point of Impact**
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

**Flexibility at GIC**
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness t