Lead Data Engineer

*Temus is a Temasek-backed consulting firm providing digital transformation solutions for the private and public sectors. W**e aspire to be a strategic partner in realising the Singapore Government’s Smart Nation vision. We are headquartered in Singapore and have more than 400 employees across a wide range of disciplines in strategy, design, architecture, technology, data & AI.* **Your objectives** - Solve the hardest problems with data and AI to deliver social and economic value. - Develop and maintain relationships with a broad range of clients, colleagues, and partners across a variety of contexts and formats. - Build, lead and mentor a world-class team of data engineers. - Maintain a culture of excellence and lead with confidence, charisma, context, and humility working effectively at all levels. - Create and deliver technical blogs & thought leadership on data engineering. - Invest continuously in building and extending your knowledge and skills. **Your background** - Exceptional expertise in expertise in designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines. - Practical hands-on experience with at least three major data platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Neo4j. - Proficiency with modern data processing frameworks: Spark, dbt, Airflow, or similar technologies. - Advanced knowledge of data streaming solutions: Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, or equivalent. - Expert-level coding ability in at least one language (Python, Scala, Java) and working knowledge of others. - Strong experience with cloud data services (AWS, Azure, GCP) including migration strategies and optimization. - Practical experience implementing data governance, security, and compliance frameworks. - 10 years of experience delivering and managing data solutions through incubation, proofs-of-concept, to deployment and commercialisation. - Strong ability to develop and maintain relationships amongst clients, colleagues, and partners. - Ability to develop and deliver client proposals, and build consensus supported by detailed analysis, deep expertise and effective communication. - Demonstrated ability to guide, develop and mentor data engineers. - Demonstrated ability to create technical blogs & thought leadership on data engineering and management. - Active engagement in the data community taking and giving courses, following podcasts, reading books, attending meetups, and developing projects. - A good sense of humour. 😉 *Temus is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all. We do not discriminate by race, religion, belief, ethnicity, origin, disability, age, partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.* *We see the diversity of our team as a strategic advantage, and we work actively to maintain it.* *By applying for this role, you have read and acknowledge the data privacy statement via this link - [](https://www.temus.com/job-applicant-data-protection/)*