AirAsia

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Kuala Lumpur - RedQ Full time


Job Description

Are you ready to take off and be part of the Allstar employee? Whether you’re applying for a developer, customer happiness or crew, at AirAsia we act as One AirAsia. If you are hungry to make a difference with one of the most well known low-cost airlines and to work in the dynamic technology hub, this is the job for you.

About the Role

Group Data comes under AirAsia Digital which is responsible for spearheading digital transformation across AirAsia. Group Data works on business and operations problems across all entities in the AirAsia Group. Key problems we solve include improving revenue and reducing costs through large-scale data federation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, state-of-the-art machine/deep learning, intelligent scheduling and optimization, and other advanced techniques.

Group Data is also responsible for the data lakes across all our businesses, deriving insights and value from them and sharing them back with the businesses. In addition, Group Data also actively participates in innovation and training in the Redbeat Academy as well as collaboration with strategic partners like Google, GE, Airbus, and academia.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Data Quality: Ensures the data integrity and quality.

  • Process Improvement: Improve internal processes through automation, optimization, and re-design.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Support and work with cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams in a dynamic environment.

  • Data Impact: Leverage data visualization tools and techniques to maximize impact and value of data.

  • External Relations: Manage external technical communication with partners and vendors.

  • Stakeholder Management: Communicate solutions to stakeholders and implement improvements as needed.

  • Governance: Contribute to improving data governance policies.

  • Industry Knowledge: Keep current with technical and industry developments.

  • Strategic Alignment: Work directly with management and users to gather requirements, define business needs, provide status updates, and build relationships.

  • Project Leadership: Manage a large set of complex projects of diverse topics and durations.

Requirements and Qualifications

  • Education: BS/MS/PhD in IT, Mathematics, Science or Engineering discipline.

  • Experience: More than 12 yrs relevant experience beyond first degree.

  • Technical Proficiency: * Familiar with data ETL from a wide variety of data sources.

  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with pipeline and workflow management tools.
  • Experience with various messaging and stream processing.
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages.
  • Familiar with containerisation and orchestration tools.
  • Familiar with Google Cloud Platform and its tools and services.
  • Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles.
  • Able to select and integrate big data tools and frameworks.
  • Workflow & Tools: * Good working knowledge of productivity tools such as G Suite, Git, Jira, Confluence.

  • Experience with code versioning, code review and documentation

Soft Skills & Leadership:

  • Familiar or prone to adopt design thinking methods.

  • Openness to experimenting with new techniques and new ways of working.

  • Ability to build internal clients relationships, and work effectively across functions and geographies.

  • Ability to design solutions independently based on high-level architecture.

  • Strong project management (waterfall, agile, scrum, etc) and organizational skills.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.

  • Ability to lead a team of data engineers and execute on multiple projects.

  • Ability to work under pressure and change, and balance among speed, reliability, interpretability.

What makes an Allstar employee?

You allow yourself to ‘Dare to Dream’ big dreams and seize the day. You ‘Make things Happen’, you like taking efforts and achieve it. Without any effort, no dream will get fulfilled.

Equal Opportunity Employer: AirAsia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.