Senior Data Engineer - Lending

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

As the Data engineer in the Lending Data Engineering team, you will work closely with data modelers, product analytics, product managers, software engineers and business stakeholders across the SEA in understanding the business and data requirements. You will be responsible for building and managing the data asset, including acquisition, storage, processing and consumption channels, and using some of the most scalable and resilient open source big data technologies like Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Trino and more on cloud infrastructure. You are encouraged to think out of the box and have fun exploring the latest patterns and designs.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Developing and maintaining scalable and reliable ETL pipelines and processes to ingest data from a large number and variety of data sources

• Developing a deep understanding of real-time data productions availability to inform on the real time metric definitions

• Develop data quality checks and establish best practices for data governance, quality assurance, data cleansing, and ETL-related activities

• Develop familiarity with the existing inbuilt data platform tools and utilize them efficiently to set up the data pipelines.

• Maintaining and optimizing the performance of our data analytics infrastructure to ensure accurate, reliable and timely delivery of key insights for decision making

• Design and deliver the next-gen data lifecycle management suite of tools/frameworks, including ingestion and consumption on the top of the data lake to support real-time, API-based and serverless use-cases, along with batch as relevant.

• Build solutions leveraging AWS services such as Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, EMR, and Kinesis to enable efficient data processing and analytics.

• Develop a deep understanding of real-time data production availability to inform real-time metric definitions using tools like Amazon MSK or Kinesis Data Streams.

• Implement and monitor data quality checks and establish best practices for data governance, quality assurance, data cleansing, and ETL-related activities using AWS Glue DataBrew or similar tools.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in developing scalable, secured, distributed, fault tolerant, resilient & mission-critical data pipelines. 

• Proficiency in at least one of the programming languages Python, Scala or Java.

• Strong understanding of big data technologies like Flink, Spark, Trino, Airflow, Kafka, and familiarity with AWS services like EMR, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, and Athena.

• Experience with SQL, schema design and data modeling. 

• Hands-on experience with AWS storage solutions (S3, DynamoDB) and query engines (Athena, Redshift Spectrum).

• Experience with different databases – NoSQL, Columnar, Relational.

• You have a hunger for consuming data, new data technologies, and discovering new and innovative solutions to the company's data needs.

• Develop familiarity with in-house and AWS-native data platform tools to efficiently set up data pipelines.

• Ability to design event-driven architectures using SNS, SQS, Lambda, or similar AWS serverless technologies.

• You are organized, insightful and can communicate your observations well, both written and verbally to your stakeholders to share updates and coordinate the development of data pipelines

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.