# Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics (Semantics Layer Engineer)

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Shenzhen, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics (Semantics Layer Engineer).

Principal responsibilities:

- Design and implement semantic models for key domains.

- Define and govern KPIs/metrics.

- Translate business requirements into standard measures and conformed dimensions.

- Implement data quality and reconciliation controls.

- Optimise semantic performance and cost.

- Apply security controls.

- Operate the semantic layer in production.

- Partner with Data Engineering, Product Owners, Analysts, Risk and Operations stakeholders.

Requirements:

- Establishing “one agreed definition” for critical onboarding, credit and portfolio KPIs used across squads.

- Reducing time spent reconciling numbers across reports, dashboards and AI outputs.

- Enabling scalable self-serve analytics with clear, discoverable, versioned metric definitions.

- Maintaining a stable, performant semantic layer with strong controls and auditability.

What additional skills will be good to have?:

- Experience designing semantic layers for regulated domains.

- Patterns for making semantics consumable by GenAI/agents.

- Familiarity with common semantic tooling.

## Skills

### Required
- semantic models
- KPIs/metrics
- data quality
- security controls
- semantic performance

### Nice to have
- Experience designing semantic layers for regulated domains
- Patterns for making semantics consumable by GenAI/agents
- Familiarity with common semantic tooling

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