10 data architecture jobs

Data Architect Responsibilities

The responsibilities are broadly grouped into architecture design, compliance, business enablement, and leadership.

1. Architect the Future

• Design and Deliver Solutions: Design and deliver enterprise-scale cloud data solutions for high-stakes transformations in sectors like Banking and Telco across ASEAN & Australia.
• Platform Design: Design secure, scalable, and modern cloud data platforms that serve as the backbone for digital transformation programs.
• End-to-End Leadership: Lead end-to-end architecture, from pre-sales solutioning to final delivery.

2. Drive Compliance & Trust

• Governance and Privacy: Ensure that data platforms meet the highest standards of governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Regulatory Adherence: Apply strong knowledge of regulatory & compliance frameworks (such as PDPA, MAS TRM, APRA, and GDPR) to secure data architecture design.

3. Enable Business Growth

• Business Translation: Translate complex technical architectures into tangible business value.
• Stakeholder Management: Empower CxOs and stakeholders to accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and improve decision-making.
• Strategic Partnership: Work directly with hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure), clients, and partners to co-create cutting-edge solutions and accelerators.

4. Elevate Standards & Leadership

• Mentorship: Mentor engineers and architects across geographies, helping them embed best practices for performance, cost optimization, and long-term sustainability.
• Delivery Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership from pre-sales solutioning (RFI/RFP, SOWs, HLD/LLD) to delivery governance and business value realization.
• Team Leadership: Proven ability to mentor and lead distributed technical teams across the region (ASEAN & Australia).
• Travel: Be willing to travel across the region for client, partner, and delivery engagements.

Technical Skills Required for this Role:-

Cloud & Data Architecture Mastery

• Experience: 5+ years designing and implementing AWS-based enterprise data platforms.
• Platform Design: Expertise in building modern data architectures like data lakes, real-time streaming, analytics, and ML integration.
• Architecture Scope: Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architectures and distributed systems.
• Core AWS Services: Hands-on experience with the following AWS services:
• Storage & Data Lake: S3, Lake Formation.
• Data Warehouse & Query: Redshift, Athena, Redshift Spectrum.
• ETL/Data Processing: Glue, EMR, Lambda, Spark/Hadoop ecosystem.
• NoSQL: DynamoDB.

2. Data Engineering & Governance

• Data Pipelining: Proficiency with ETL/ELT tools and frameworks, specifically Glue, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Optimization: Ability to design, optimize, and tune data pipelines for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Data Management: Strong understanding of enterprise data concepts, including data security, governance, lineage, quality, cataloging, and compliance.

3. Programming & Database Technologies

• Programming: Experience in Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and architecture automation.
• Database Knowledge: Deep knowledge of MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) and NoSQL databases.
• Analytics: Strong skills in SQL-on-Hadoop/AWS technologies (Hive, Spark SQL), and expertise in data warehouse design and BI/reporting solutions.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Generative AI: Experience with GenAI data integration projects (using vectorDBs, embeddings, chunking, and Multi-Cloud Platform/tools integration).
• Multi-Cloud: Familiarity with Azure, GCP, or multi-hyperscaler architectures for co-solutioning.
• Resilience: Experience designing disaster recovery & backup strategies for large-scale data platforms.

• What We Bring to the Table

• Impact-First Culture: Your work directly contributes to real-world AI solutions and business outcomes.

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities, mentorship from industry leaders, and a clear path for career development.

• Competitive Compensation: Market-leading salary, benefits, and incentives.

• Dynamic Team Environment: Collaborate with a high-performing team that values curiosity, integrity, and ownership.

• Global Exposure: Opportunities for international travel.