Data Engineering Lead – Top Buy-side Firm - PINPOINT ASIA INFOTECH PTE. LTD.

Roles & Responsibilities

Our client, a leading buy-side investment firm, is embarking on a greenfield data engineering initiative to build a best-in-class data platform that underpins investment decision-making. They are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineering Lead to drive the architecture, development, and scaling of this platform. This role begins as an individual contributor with full ownership of the build-out, with the mandate to grow and lead a team as the function expands.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of a greenfield data platform, from architecture design to implementation.
• Build scalable, secure, and cloud-native data pipelines and infrastructure to support investment and trading strategies.
• Partner with portfolio managers, quants, and data scientists to capture requirements and deliver high-value data solutions.
• Design and implement modern ETL / ELT workflows for diverse datasets (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured).
• Define best practices for data engineering, including CI / CD, testing, monitoring, and governance.
• Evaluate and adopt cutting-edge technologies to ensure the platform’s scalability and resilience.
• Mentor and lead a team of data engineers as the platform matures.

Requirements

With well over a decade of a solid and enviable track record behind us, headquartered in Hong Kong, Pinpoint Asia Infotech Pte Ltd (EA License : 16C8291) is the go-to IT Search Firm for several top Investment Banks and Financial Institutions.

If you are interested in the above position, please send your CV to Charlie Kim @ resume.sg@pinpointasia.com (EA Registration number : Reg No : R23112483)

Tell employers what skills you have

Management Skills

PySpark

Pandas

Scalability

Azure

Pipelines

Data Engineering

SQL

Distributed Systems

Trading Strategies

Python

Architecture Design

Stakeholder Management

S3

Databases