Remote - Technical Lead, Data Platform

About Us

MatchMove is a leading embedded finance platform that empowers businesses to embed financial services into their applications. We provide innovative solutions across payments, banking-as-a-service, and spend/send management, enabling our clients to drive growth and enhance customer experiences.

Are You The One?

As a Technical Lead Engineer - Data, you will architect, implement, and scale our end-to-end data platform built on AWS S3, Glue, Lake Formation, and DMS. You will lead a small team of engineers while working cross-functionally with stakeholders from fraud, finance, product, and engineering to enable reliable, timely, and secure data access across the business.

You will champion best practices in data design, governance, and observability, while leveraging GenAI tools to improve engineering productivity and accelerate time to insight.

You will contribute to

• Owning the design and scalability of the data lake architecture for both streaming and batch workloads, leveraging AWS-native services.
• Leading the development of ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines using AWS Glue, DMS, Kinesis/Kafka, and PySpark.
• Structuring and evolving data into OTF formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake) to support real-time and time-travel queries for downstream services.
• Driving data productization, enabling API-first and self-service access to curated datasets for fraud detection, reconciliation, and reporting use cases.
• Defining and tracking SLAs and SLOs for critical data pipelines, ensuring high availability and data accuracy in a regulated fintech environment.
• Collaborating with InfoSec, SRE, and Data Governance teams to enforce data security, lineage tracking, access control, and compliance (GDPR, MAS TRM).
• Using Generative AI tools to enhance developer productivity — including auto-generating test harnesses, schema documentation, transformation scaffolds, and performance insights.
• Mentoring data engineers, setting technical direction, and ensuring delivery of high-quality, observable data pipelines.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, cost-optimized pipelines across real-time and batch paradigms, using tools such as AWS Glue, Step Functions, Airflow, or EMR.
• Manage ingestion from transactional sources using AWS DMS, with a focus on schema drift handling and low-latency replication.
• Design efficient partitioning, compression, and metadata strategies for Iceberg or Hudi tables stored in S3, and cataloged with Glue and Lake Formation.
• Build data marts, audit views, and analytics layers that support both machine-driven processes (e.g. fraud engines) and human-readable interfaces (e.g. dashboards).
• Ensure robust data observability with metrics, alerting, and lineage tracking via OpenLineage or Great Expectations.
• Lead quarterly reviews of data cost, performance, schema evolution, and architecture design with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Enforce version control, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices using GitOps and tools like Terraform.
  
  

Requirements

• At-least 7 years of experience in data engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS data stack: Glue (Jobs & Crawlers), S3, Athena, Lake Formation, DMS, and Redshift Spectrum.
• Expertise in designing data pipelines for real-time, streaming, and batch systems, including schema design, format optimization, and SLAs.
• Strong programming skills in Python (PySpark) and advanced SQL for analytical processing and transformation.
• Proven experience managing data architectures using open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi) at scale.
• Understanding of stream processing with Kinesis/Kafka and orchestration via Airflow or Step Functions.
• Experience implementing data access controls, encryption policies, and compliance workflows in regulated environments.
• Ability to integrate GenAI tools into data engineering processes to drive measurable productivity and quality gains — with strong engineering hygiene.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
  
  

Brownie Points

• Experience working in a PCI DSS or any other central bank regulated environment with audit logging and data retention requirements.
• Experience in the payments or banking domain, with use cases around reconciliation, chargeback analysis, or fraud detection.
• Familiarity with data contracts, data mesh patterns, and data as a product principles.
• Experience using GenAI to automate data documentation, generate data tests, or support reconciliation use cases.
• Exposure to performance tuning and cost optimization strategies in AWS Glue, Athena, and S3.
• Experience building data platforms for ML/AI teams or integrating with model feature stores.
  
  

MatchMove Culture:

• We cultivate a dynamic and innovative culture that fuels growth, creativity, and collaboration. Our fast-paced fintech environment thrives on adaptability, agility, and open communication.
• We focus on employee development, supporting continuous learning and growth through training programs, learning on the job and mentorship.
• We encourage speaking up, sharing ideas, and taking ownership. Embracing diversity, our team spans across Asia, fostering a rich exchange of perspectives and experiences.
• Together, we harness the power of fintech and e-commerce to make a meaningful impact on people's lives.
  
  

Grow with us and shape the future of fintech and e-commerce. Join us and be part of something bigger!

Personal Data Protection Act:

By submitting your application for this job, you are authorizing MatchMove to:

• collect and use your personal data, and to disclose such data to any third party with whom MatchMove or any of its related corporation has service arrangements, in each case for all purposes in connection with your job application, and employment with MatchMove; and
• retain your personal data for one year for consideration of future job opportunities (where applicable).