Job Title: Data Architect (SAS / Data Warehouse)
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (On-site)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: RM7,500 – RM11,000 per month
About the Role
Our client, a well-established organisation in Kuala Lumpur, is looking for a Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of its Enterprise Data Warehouse and analytics solutions. Reporting to the Head of Big Data & Analytics, you will be the technical lead for the Data Engineering team and help ensure the organisation's data is secure, reliable and ready to support business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead in planning, defining and establishing the Enterprise Data Warehouse architecture, data management processes and analytics solutions, in line with the Enterprise Data Management strategy.
- Lead and manage the Data Engineering team, providing technical direction and support so they deliver secure, consistent and sustainable data solutions.
- Assess, develop and implement new capabilities in Data Management and Data Integration to improve the end-user experience and process efficiency.
- Establish development guidelines, standards and best practices for data management and data pipelines, ensuring performance, stability and extensibility.
- Lead Data Engineering and BI projects: run requirements-gathering sessions with business and technical users, review source system architecture and schemas, and analyse requirements.
- Review technical design documents (integration specifications, data models, data marts, BI reports and dashboard designs) to keep project scope and changes properly documented.
- Oversee support of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, BI reporting and data integration points (internal and external systems), delivering services within SLA to minimise business disruption.
- Guide team performance and foster a high-performance culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in data architecture and data-related roles (Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Management and/or Business Intelligence).
- Strong expertise in data warehouse design, data modelling, ETL architecture design and optimisation, performance tuning and solution architecture.
- Strong SAS programming skills (Base SAS, SAS DI Studio, SAS Macro).
- Strong SQL skills (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or similar).
- Experience designing enterprise ETL and data integration solutions.
- Experience with data governance, data security and data quality frameworks.
- Experience analysing production deployments, improving data quality in a data warehouse and recommending processing optimisations.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex technical topics in business terms.
- Able to lead technical discussions and architecture reviews.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit their updated resume with current and expected salary.
Pay: RM7,500.00 - RM11,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person