Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer

Regional AI Centre of Excellence | Global Life Insurer
Location: Hong Kong; candidates based in the Philippines or India may also be considered
Experience: 5–10+ years of relevant experience

The opportunity

We are partnered with a global life insurer to strengthen the shared data infrastructure supporting its regional AI Centre of Excellence and Asian businesses. As AI use cases develop across markets, scalable platform services will be essential to enabling secure, repeatable delivery.

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will build and operate the environments on which data and AI teams depend. Working across cloud infrastructure, automation and reliability, you will create reusable services and self-service capabilities that help teams move efficiently while maintaining enterprise controls.

What you will do

• Engineer and operate data flows within AWS-based lakehouse platforms.
• Automate infrastructure and environment provisioning.
• Support platform access management and deployment pipelines.
• Establish monitoring and reliability engineering practices.
• Develop reusable platform services and self-service patterns, including generative AI-enabled business intelligence.
• Manage availability, performance and cost as workload requirements evolve.

What you will bring

• Experience building and operating secure enterprise data infrastructure.
• Hands-on cloud platform and infrastructure automation capability.
• Knowledge of deployment pipelines, monitoring and reliability practices.
• Experience implementing access and operational controls.
• Ability to balance platform usability with security and operational requirements.

Preferred: Experience supporting data and AI workloads across multiple teams or markets.

Why this role

Your work will enable delivery across a wider regional AI ecosystem, giving you scope to shape shared platform capabilities and solve infrastructure challenges that extend beyond a single application.

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Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.