Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform, Singpass
Core
Design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable data platforms and distributed systems for Singapore's national digital identity system (Singpass), supporting real-time and batch workloads for fraud detection, operational intelligence, and secure data sharing.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (platform & distributed systems)
Builds
Scalable data platforms, event-driven architectures, stream-processing systems, and data ingestion pipelines for Singpass
Domain
Public sector / National Digital Identity / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, stream processing, data pipeline engineering, observability, security engineering, system reliability, technical leadership, architecture trade-offs
Preferred skills
Kafka, cloud data infrastructure, data lakes/warehouses, schema management, DataOps, feature stores
Technologies
Kafka, stream processing frameworks, cloud platforms, data lakes, data warehouses
Responsibilities
Design and operate scalable data platforms for real-time and batch workloads; Build and evolve event-driven architectures and stream-processing systems; Develop robust data ingestion and processing pipelines with strong data quality guarantees; Design platform capabilities for engineering and data teams; Build observability and telemetry for platform health; Diagnose complex production issues across distributed systems; Mentor engineers and establish DataOps best practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
