Senior Data Architect

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities providing consulting digital services technology solutions and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things creating lasting value and impact for our communities partners and people. Our diverse workforce of 13000 has delivered large-scale mission-critical and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

We are seeking a Data Architect to design implement and evolve modern data platform architectures across cloud hybrid and enterprise environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders data engineers platform teams and solution architects to translate requirements into scalable and secure architectural designs that enable analytics governance and enterprise decision-making.

What you will do:

1. Architecture Design

• Lead the design of modern data architectures including data lakes warehouses and lakehouses.
• Define data integration patterns ingestion pipelines ETL/ELT frameworks and real-time/streaming architectures.
• Develop logical physical and conceptual data models aligned with business and analytics requirements.
• Ensure scalability performance reliability and cost-efficiency of data platforms.

2. Platform & Solution Design

• Design data solutions across on-prem hybrid and cloud platforms.
• Define storage compute security lineage and metadata frameworks.
• Recommend technology options architecture decisions and best practices.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

3. Data Governance & Security

• Implement data governance principles and metadata management frameworks.
• Design access lineage cataloging data quality and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise security regulatory and industry standards.

4. Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Work closely with data engineers and delivery teams to ensure successful solution implementation.
• Provide technical leadership during development integration and deployment.
• Conduct architecture reviews design validation and performance optimisation.
• Produce high-quality architecture documentation diagrams and technical specifications.

5. AI Architecture

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Information Systems or related fields.
• 512 years of experience in data architecture data platform engineering or data solution design.
• Strong hands-on experience in modern data platforms (cloud lakehouse distributed data).
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT data modeling data governance and security.
• Experience in consulting or system integration environments is preferred.
• Experience with AI architecture is a strong advantage but not mandatory.

Skills

• Modern cloud data platforms
• Data lake / warehouse / lakehouse
• ETL / ELT & integration pipelines
• Data modeling and metadata
• Data governance & security
• AI and ML architecture patterns
• LLMs RAG or GenAI solutions
• Data pipelines for AI workloads
• ModelOps and AI lifecycle considerations
• GPU compute and AI infrastructure

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Self-driven structured and detail-oriented.
• Passion for modern data platforms and emerging technologies.

Why Join NCS

• Opportunity to design and build modern enterprise data architectures.
• Work with leading public sector and enterprise clients across APAC.
• Exposure to advanced Data & AI technologies and platforms.
• Professional development and continuous learning environment.
• Collaborative innovative culture driving real transformation.

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefsAdventure Excellence Integrity Ownership and Unityand we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients Growing our people and Creating our future.

Together we make the extraordinary happen.

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