# Assistant Manager, Data Platform Engineer

**Company**: AIA Digital+
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

AIA Digital+ is seeking an Assistant Manager, Data Platform Engineer to provide technical support for Group Application Data Platform. The successful candidate will support, maintain and monitor big data cloud-based technologies and applications, manage a team of data platform support agents, and ensure BAU support is provided according to SLAs.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Maintain and optimize big data cloud-based systems and applications

- Implement advanced monitoring and metrics to provide operational rigor and oversight

- Analyze and troubleshoot issues related to big data cloud-based systems and applications

- Develop and manage diagnostic and instrumental tools for troubleshooting and in-depth analysis

- Continuously refine and improve Data Analytics platforms and systems

- Ensure existing guidelines, standards and best practices are followed and applied to development projects

- Take ownership for issues to reach resolutions to prevent recurrences

- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues under tight deadlines

- Proactively identify the impact of potential process changes and integrate new initiatives with existing processes

- Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managements, business users, and peers

- Work independently with strong problem-solving skills

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in IT or other relevant discipline

- 5+ years IT work experience in database platform support role

- Azure Big Data Cloud Technologies experience is a mandatory requirement

- Solid understanding and some practical experience in object-oriented programming languages, advanced SQL skills, and relational database management

- Experience with Hadoop/MapReduce/Pig/Hive/EMR/Redshift for large data processing

- Experience in managing Data Analytics tools such as PowerBI and Alteryx

- Cloud computing certifications/licenses – Azure certification could be an advantage

**Benefits:**

- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and exciting environment

- Endless opportunities to learn, contribute and thrive

- Equip with critical skills, tools and technology

## Skills

### Required
- Azure Big Data Cloud Technologies
- object-oriented programming languages
- advanced SQL skills
- relational database management
- Hadoop/MapReduce/Pig/Hive/EMR/Redshift
- PowerBI
- Alteryx

### Nice to have
- Cloud computing certifications/licenses
- Azure certification

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