Associate, Data Platform Engineer - SRE, Data Strategy Group

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Data Strategy Group 
Data Strategy Group (DSG) harnesses and leverages on GIC’s most valuable asset – Data, to drive insights, results and solve real business challenges. We ingest, analyse, and combine data with context across all industries and asset classes to enable investment decisions and enhance investment process. Together, we strive to build a high-performance enterprise data infrastructure, create results-driven approach with data products and strive to be a data-driven organization. 
  

What impact and exposure opportunities come with this role? 

We are seeking a skilled Data Platform Engineer with a strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing the reliability, availability, and performance of our enterprise data platforms. You will leverage SRE best practices to streamline and automate operational tasks, ensuring seamless integration within our organization’s ecosystem. 

You will be actively involved in software engineering practices for fast-moving agile projects using modern DevSecOps practices (e.g. GitHub, JFrog, Jira) and will learn about data platforms (e.g. Snowflake/Databricks, distributed query engines, business intelligence). 

What will you do as a Data Platform Engineer? 

• Operational Excellence: Provide operational production support (e.g. incident & emergency response management, availability management, change management, configuration management) and documentation for data infrastructure platforms. 
• Automation: Bring on a mindset to identify opportunities to automate operational tasks, streamline deployment via CICD, monitoring and incident response processes, reducing manual intervention. 
• Monitoring & Observability: Design and implement mechanisms to effectively gather metrics and metadata from monitoring systems (e.g. Datadog) and enterprise data platforms to provide recommendations for targeted improvements in performance tuning and fault-finding activities. 
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and implement enhancements to improve operational efficiencies (e.g. CPU utilization, latency) of data platforms. 
• Securing by Design: Partner with internal security and infrastructure teams to ensure secure and robust architectural design for our data platforms. 
• Collaboration: Become an excellent team player with a collaborative mindset; you will work directly with investment and technology professionals at all grades and across departments. 

What makes you a successful candidate? 

Join us if you have a passion for data and want to be part of a team in building and developing GIC’s data foundation and infrastructure.  

• 4 or more years of relevant technology experience preferably in financial risk services or asset management industries, and experience in leading software development teams. 
• Hands-on engineering experience in the following:  
  • Programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C# (.NET Core))  
  • SQL, and relational databases (e.g. Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle) 
  • Scripting for automation (e.g. Bash, Powershell) 
  • Monitoring tools (e.g. Data dog, Splunk, Cloudwatch) 
  • Cloud technologies & IAC (e.g. AWS, EKS, S3, Kubernetes, Terraform, KMS)  
  • (Prefer) Distributed query technologies (e.g. Denodo, Presto/Trino, Starburst, Athena) 
  • (Optional) Data storage & EL/ETL processing (e.g. data lakes, data warehousing) 
• Experience in application support practices such as incident management, capacity management, system and security administration, database and network management, with a strong experience on automating processes using scripting and automation tools (such as Python, Bash, etc) to enhance the efficiency of operational tasks. 
• Willingness to learn with attention to detail, demonstrating a strong passion in technology and/or finance. 
• Fair presentation skills, and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Good engagement with software engineers and guide hands-on development. 
• Ability to collaborate with cross-departmental business and technical partners to contribute to the delivery of business outcomes. 
• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related discipline is advantageous. 

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact. 

Flexibility at GIC 
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

We are an equal opportunity employer
GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn more about our Data Strategy Group Department here:

https://gic.careers/group/data-strategy-group/