Technical Lead

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to lead the design, development, and delivery of a large-scale data platform hosted on the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) using AWS Cloud services. The candidate will be responsible for end-to-end data architecture, ETL modernization, master data management, governance, and reporting solutions for a public sector program.

The ideal candidate should possess strong public sector experience, deep knowledge of Public Sector frameworks, Government cloud governance requirements, and proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions using AWS-native services and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform Leadership

• Lead the technical design and implementation of enterprise data platforms on AWS GCC.
• Define target-state architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
• Drive cloud-native modernization initiatives and technology roadmap.
• Work closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, Public Sector teams, and infrastructure teams.

Data Engineering & ETL

• Design and implement large-scale data pipelines using: AWS Glue / AWS Lambda / Amazon S3 / AWS Step Functions / AWS EMR / Amazon Redshift / Amazon Athena / Amazon Event Bridge
• Lead Talend ETL development and migration strategy toward AWS-native services.
• Experience working with Graph DB applications using Neo4j
• Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and performance optimization.

Data Governance & Catalog

• Implement enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Manage metadata, lineage, and catalogue solutions.
• Experience with Talend Data Catalog / AWS Glue Data Catalog / Data Governance frameworks / Data Stewardship processes

Master Data Management (MDM)

• Lead administration and enhancement of TIBCO EBX MDM platform.
• Define migration roadmap from TIBCO EBX to AWS-native MDM architecture.
• Implement master data management, golden record management, hierarchy management, and data quality frameworks.
• Collaborate with business data owners and governance councils.

Application Integration

• Lead the design, development, and support of enterprise application integrations across government and external systems.
• Design and implement API-first architectures following Public Sector and WOG integration standards.
• Develop and manage secure integrations between data platforms, MDM systems, COTS products, and downstream applications.
• Ensure scalability, performance, security, and monitoring of integration services.
• Support real-time, near real-time, and batch integration patterns.

Required Skills & Experience

Cloud Technologies

• 8+ years in Data Engineering and Solution Architecture.
• 5+ years of AWS Cloud experience.

Area: Specifics

AWS Data Engineering

• AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, EMR, Redshift, Athena, EventBridge

ETL Tools

• Talend Data Integration + Talend Data Catalog (hands-on, not just exposure)

Application Integration

• REST/SOAP APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API Gateway, event-driven architecture (Kafka a plus)

Security standards

• OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, mTLS

AWS Infrastructure

• EC2, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, HA/DR, IaC — architecture-level understanding, not necessarily hands-on ops

Public Sector (Singapore) — Mandatory

• Prior delivery experience with Singapore Public Sector, on Government Commercial Cloud (GCC), under WOG/IM8 frameworks
  

Good to Have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Data Analytics Specialty
• TOGAF
• Talend Certification
• Tableau Certification
• PMP / Scrum Master