Senior Principal Data Engineering Lead

Role: Senior Principal Data Engineering Lead
Location: Singapore

To lead and scale the Data Engineering, DataOps and Data Stewardship functions within the Data organization. This role ensures end-to-end delivery excellence of the cloud-native data platform – spanning data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and operations – to enable reliable, high-quality, and self-service analytics across business domains.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and lead a hybrid team of data engineers and stewards across Singapore, Malaysia and India, establishing in-house technical leadership and delivery ownership.
  

• Data Engineering Delivery: Oversee design, development, and optimization of ELT/ETL pipelines and data models, ensuring scalable, reusable, and cost-efficient workflows.
  

• Data Quality & Stewardship: Institutionalize stewardship processes — define ownership models, implement DQ monitoring, and drive remediation workflows with cross-functional data users.
  

• Operational Excellence: Manage daily pipeline operations, SLA compliance, and production issue resolution with strong root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
  

• Technical Governance: Set engineering standards for observability, RBAC, cost tagging, and CI/CD practices.
  

• Collaboration & Enablement: Enable self-service analytics by curating trusted datasets and modeled views, working with BI and business teams.