Data Engineer

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

**The Aviation Innovation Research (AIR) Lab**

The joint CAAS-Thales innovation lab known as ‘AIR Lab’ started to operate on 1st November 2019 with the objective to develop Proof of Concepts (POCs) or Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) of advanced and open technologies for future Air Traffic Management (ATM). Currently, the joint lab employs a team of 40 Thales engineers and 12 CAAS engineers and air traffic controllers operating in a vibrant ecosystem involving a number of Singaporean SMEs and start-ups, as well as key research institutes.

Thales engineers include 10 domain experts - with more than 10 years of experience - coming from Thales ATM centers of competence in France and Australia. These experts are coaching both the local Thales and CAAS engineers.

The POCs and MVPs are co-developed with the CAAS engineers who have access to the same development tools and environment used by the Thales Engineers (provided by the Singapore branch of Thales Digital Factory). The POCs and MVPs are defined in collaboration with CAAS air traffic controllers through iterative workshops.

AIR Lab research outcomes will feed the next generation of products, including clearly disruptive outcomes addressing Safety and Security for Open architecture, data driven ATM Twin, Green Aviation, Trajectory Based Operations.

As the AIR Lab was recently extended for another 3 years, 4 work streams are now embarked: Regional Experimental Platform, FF-ICE/TBO, Green Aviation, Future-proof Interoperable Platform-Agnostic, Safe and Secure Platforms. These work streams are supported by the AIR Lab DataLake platform which provides data transformation and serving services in the cloud.

AIR Lab 2.0 continues to benefit from research conducted in Europe through new architecture research which, among other objectives, aims at meeting much stricter safety standards for ground ATM systems in development by the European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA). This breakthrough architecture study is co-funded by the French government (CASSIOPEA).

Regional Experimental Platform (REP) has been initiated in AIR Lab 1.0 and has the view to addressing regional needs in coordination with the SESAR 3 activities conducted in AMS France.

**Who We Are Looking For**

**Responsibilities**:

- Improve and maintain the DataLake cybersecurity posture with regards to data governance and cybersecurity standards by working with other stakeholders (e.g., Data Architect, Data Assessment Office, Cybersecurity Office).
- Improve and maintain the DataLake service levels for reliable data flow, health of infrastructure (i.e., compute and storage).
- Improve and maintain the total-cost of ownership of the DataLake; this activity includes raising efficiencies around FinOps, CloudOps.
- Improve and maintain the architecture transforming data between the DataLake and a distributed search and analytics engine (e.g., ElasticSearch)
- Lead the technical evolution of the DataLake by conducting the following activities (non-exhaustively) exploring new methods, techniques, algorithms (e.g., data meshes, AI/MLOps infrastructure).
- Improve and maintain the data model, data catalogue (e.g., event data, batched data, persisted, ephemeral).
- Work with the Data Architect to effect best practices to the engineering organization.
- To implement features by defining test, develop feature and associated automated tests. If appropriate, implement security tests and load tests.
- Write and review the necessary technical and functional documentation in documentation repositories (e.g., backstage.io, JIRA, READMEs).
- Work in an agile, cross-functional multinational team, actively engaging to support the success of the team.

**Requirements**:
**Education**
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Information Technology
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Data Science, if applicable

**Essential Skills/Experience**
- Proficiency in designing, implementing ETL data pipelines (wi