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Data Platform Principal Architect

Airwallex· Engineering
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Lead architect for governed, reusable data, knowledge, and skills layers powering analytics, AI agents, and real-time decision systems. Responsible for global data localisation, semantic models, governance, and platform evolution toward AI agent-ready infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical execution of regional and global data localisation strategies within Databricks, balancing regulatory requirements with a unified global data model across priority markets.
  • Design scalable patterns for governed datasets, semantic models, knowledge artifacts, analytical workflows, agent-callable tools, and transformation primitives.
  • Reconcile local compliance constraints with global consistency in data definitions, metrics, and knowledge assets.
  • Partner with Data Science, AI Engineering, Product, and Risk teams to support experimentation, high-quality decision-making, and reliable AI-enabled workflows.
  • Lead global data modelling efforts, define Agent Interfaces through APIs and tools, and embed automated lineage and quality controls through Governance-as-Code.
  • Serve as the primary technical authority as the team’s most senior individual contributor, leading design reviews and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data systems with strong architectural fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with the Databricks ecosystem, including Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
  • Experience implementing semantic layers or metric stores to enable consistent reporting and analytics.
  • Strong understanding of how AI and agent-based systems consume data, with experience building APIs or data services to support them.
  • Experience designing data solutions that meet regional data residency and compliance requirements.
  • Demonstrated senior-level individual contributor experience, including leading design reviews and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Required:Databricks ecosystem (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake)Semantic layers / metric storesAPIs / data services for AI/agent consumptionData residency & compliance design

Benefits

  • N/A
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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