Principal Data Engineering Lead

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Principal Data Platform Engineering Lead (Cloud AWS & Snowflake)

Location: Malaysia

We are partnering with a leading telecom client to hire a Principal Data Platform Engineering Lead in Malaysia. This role ensures the continuous reliability scalability and security of cloud data platform built on AWS Snowflake SageMaker and Datapipe. The incumbent drives operational excellence automation and engineering maturity across the platform while prototyping and rolling out new platform capabilities that enable agility innovation and performance for data and AI workloads across the enterprise.

Accountabilities:

1. Own end-to-end infrastructure and platform operations of the DXP Data Platform across AWS Snowflake and SageMaker environments (DEV SIT PROD).

2. Lead the design build and automation of data platform engineering and DevOps practices ensuring continuous improvement and zero-downtime operations.

3. Lead the prototyping implementation and rollout of new platform capabilities and services across AWS Snowflake and SageMaker.

4. Implement governance security and compliance standards & improvements for cloud infrastructure data access and network controls.

5. Drive operational excellence through monitoring alerting cost optimization and performance tuning.

6. Manage a hybrid team of internal platform engineers and vendor-augmented resources supporting Day 2 operations and enhancements.

7. Partner with Data Engineering Architecture Security Infrastructure & Tooling teams to ensure aligned technical roadmaps compliance readiness and audit traceability.

Requirements

Requirements:

1. 8-10 years of experience in cloud and platform engineering with extensive experience on AWS-based data platforms.

2. Proven leadership of cross-functional engineering teams managing production-grade multi-environment platforms.

3. Hands-on expertise in:

a. AWS Services: VPC EC2 S3 RDS Lambda KMS CloudFormation/CDK Transfer Family CloudWatch CloudTrail.

b. Snowflake: administration RBAC warehouse optimization DevOps automation Cortex AI and Streamlit integration.

c. EKS / Airflow / Airbyte (Datapipe): container orchestration CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

d. SageMaker: multi-domain setup pipeline management Studio/Canvas lifecycle and MLOps enablement.

e. Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch Splunk Snowflake Account Usage cost dashboards PagerDuty Slack ServiceNow.

4. Demonstrated success in prototyping implementing and scaling new cloud and data platform features into production.

5. Experience managing Day 2 operations incident response and SRE-driven performance stabilization.

6. Familiarity with machine learning integration and model lifecycle management.

7. Experience enforcing ITSec and compliance standards (IAM KMS PDPA/GDPR).

8. Proven success in transitioning platform operations from vendor-managed to in-house ownership.

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Role: Principal Data Platform Engineering Lead (Cloud AWS & Snowflake) Location: MalaysiaWe are partnering with a leading telecom client to hire a Principal Data Platform Engineering Lead in Malaysia. This role ensures the continuous reliability scalability and security of cloud data platform bui...