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Data Engineer

Wahed· Engineering
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Hybrid (Kuala Lumpur)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Data Engineer role at Wahed in Kuala Lumpur focusing on building and optimizing data systems and pipelines, enabling cross-functional data delivery, and supporting analytics and product data needs in a hybrid, full-time position.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a centralised data system consisting of an optimally built data pipeline architecture, data warehouse, data lake and data hubs
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements
  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Events and AWS ‘big data’ technologies but not limited to AWS
  • Build analytics tools and reports that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
  • Work with various stakeholders and teams at Wahed to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
  • Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions
  • Create data tools for Product team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader

Qualifications

  • At least 3 to 5 years of Data Engineering experience
  • A degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field
  • Strong Python coding skills
  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Experience with ‘big data’ data systems, pipelines, architectures, data sets and ETL tools
  • Comfortable performing root cause analysis to answer specific business data questions and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment
  • Familiar with AWS
  • Familiar with noSQL databases such as Elasticsearch and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka
  • Strong analytical skills related to working with complex and non-structured datasets
  • Experience in creating and improving processes that support data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
  • Strong communicator, project management and organizational skills
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
  • Eager and open to learning

Skills

Required:PythonSQLBig data technologies
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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