# Senior Data Platform Engineer, Knowledge Platform & AI Enablement

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer on the Knowledge Platform & AI Enablement team at Airwallex, you will play a critical role in building the next generation of data and knowledge infrastructure. This involves turning structured and unstructured information into trusted context for people and AI systems.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed data systems across batch and streaming workloads, improving data latency, reliability, and engineering productivity.

- Drive foundational technical decisions across data processing, service-layer infrastructure, application-layer systems, third-party data integrations, and performance optimisation.

- Build and automate high-performance distributed data processing systems that support Airwallex's data and AI capabilities.

- Lead medium- and large-scale engineering projects from system design through delivery, creating impact across the team and organisation.

- Raise engineering standards through scalable data architecture, shared tooling, high-quality software practices, and technical guidance for other engineers.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of relevant experience as a data engineer.

- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

- Strong programming skills in one or more of Kotlin, Java, Scala, Python, and SQL.

- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, including establishing overarching data architecture.

- Strong working knowledge of real-time and batch data processing systems.

- Experience working with data at petabyte scale.

- Experience making technical decisions across data processing, service-layer infrastructure, application-layer systems, third-party data integrations, and performance optimisation.

- Experience developing and automating large-scale, high-performance distributed data processing systems.

- A track record of driving medium- and large-scale engineering projects from design through delivery.

- A commitment to high-quality software engineering practices and scalable data infrastructure.

- Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Kafka, data lakes, Spark, Flink, dbt, Spring Boot, Hadoop, BigQuery, or Snowflake.

- Experience contributing to shared data engineering standards, tools, or platforms that improve engineering productivity and output quality.

- Experience with next-generation data architectures such as lakehouse systems.

- Experience working in a high-growth or scaling environment.

## Work Environment

- You will work from our Singapore office five days a week.

## Team Culture

- The Knowledge Platform sits at the foundation of Airwallex's Data and AI strategy, evolving traditional data infrastructure into knowledge infrastructure.

- You will build the platform end-to-end, from core technologies to real-time analytics, knowledge retrieval, and AI interaction history.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary.

- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology.

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

- Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- Scala
- Python
- SQL
- distributed systems
- data architecture
- real-time data processing
- batch data processing
- high-performance distributed data processing systems

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- data lakes
- Spark
- Flink
- dbt
- Spring Boot
- Hadoop
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- lakehouse systems

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