Director, Data Platform Engineering (relocate to Singapore) at Airwallex

Airwallex

US - San Francisco·4d ago

DirectorFull-timeRustData ScienceAIAPI

Salary Range

$204,000 - $276,000 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Director, Data Platform Engineering (based in Singapore) to own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack that powers analytics, AI agents, and real-time decisioning across the company. This is a product-facing platform leadership role.

Key Responsibilities

→Design and scale the semantic and operational layers on top of our Data Lakehouse (Databricks)
→Enforce strong governance and lineage across the platform
→Productize capabilities for both human analysts and machine agents
→Architect and scale the governed stack across regions and use cases
→Ensure the platform remains accessible and intuitive for Data Science, AI engineering, and technical business stakeholders
→Own the regional and global data localization strategy within our Databricks environment
→Partner with Data Science, AI engineering, Product, and Risk teams to support rapid experimentation and intelligent automation

Requirements

✓15+ years in data or platform engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering teams in complex, multi-region environments
✓Proven experience architecting and scaling modern data platforms with semantic layers and metadata systems
✓Strong hands-on expertise in data modeling with robust data quality, lineage, and observability practices
✓Experience designing and operationalizing a governed semantic layer with standardized business metric definitions
✓Track record of building reusable, programmatic capabilities on top of data platforms
✓Deep familiarity with modern lakehouse architectures, particularly within a Databricks environment
✓Experience implementing regional data localization and residency strategies while maintaining a unified global data model
✓Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and regulatory controls in multi-jurisdictional contexts
✓Platform-as-product mindset with experience driving adoption and improving developer experience