Senior Principal Data Engineering Lead

Cygnify

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore permanent

Posted: February 3, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Principal Data Engineering Lead

Location: Singapore

We are currently partnering with a leading technology-driven telecommunications organization that is scaling rapidly to support new digital initiatives and platforms. As part of this expansion, multiple roles are open across key functions to help build, maintain, and enhance next-generation solutions. This opportunity offers exposure to large-scale systems, innovative technologies, and a collaborative environment where skills and ideas make a real impact.

Responsibilities:

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Strategic Contribution: Drive the evolution of the DXP data architecture, supporting StarHub’s broader digital transformation and AI/ML readiness.

Requirements:
Minimum Profile/ Track Record:

1. At least 8 years of experience in cloud-native data engineering, with strong architecture and delivery experience on AWS.

2. Proven leadership of cross-functional and hybrid engineering teams, including vendor-augmented resources.

3. Experience partnering with BI and business teams to design modelled datasets and enable self-service analytics.

4. Deep hands-on technical expertise, including:

a. Snowflake: schema design, Streams/Tasks, Stored Procedures, UDFs, RBAC, performance tuning, Cortex AI, Streamlit, cost monitoring.

b. Airflow or similar data orchestration tools: orchestration, scheduling, dependency management, and observability.

c. Python and SQL: pipeline scripting, transformation logic, and data validation.

d. ELT/ETL frameworks: Airbyte, Fivetran, and custom connector development.

e. AWS services: S3 (data lake structures and archival), Lambda, KMS, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, Sagemaker.

5. Demonstrated success delivering medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and enabling self-service data use cases.

6. Experience building data quality frameworks, stewardship policies, and data lineage tracking across enterprise datasets.

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