Title: AWS Technical Architect
Location: Singapore
Data Platform Leadership
Lead the technical design and implementation of enterprise data platforms on AWS, hosted in a government cloud environment.
Define target-state architecture for ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
Drive cloud-native modernization and the technology roadmap.
Work closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, public sector teams, and infrastructure teams.
Data Engineering & ETL
Build large-scale data pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, EMR, Redshift, Athena, and EventBridge.
Lead Talend ETL development and the migration strategy toward AWS-native services.
Work with graph database applications (Neo4j).
Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
Data Governance & Catalog
Implement enterprise data governance frameworks.
Manage metadata, lineage, and catalog solutions (Talend Data Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog) and data stewardship processes.
Master Data Management (MDM)
Lead administration and enhancement of the TIBCO EBX MDM platform.
Define the migration roadmap from TIBCO EBX to an AWS-native MDM architecture.
Implement master data management, golden record management, hierarchy management, and data quality frameworks.
Collaborate with business data owners and governance councils.
Application Integration
Lead design, development, and support of enterprise integrations across government and external systems.
Design API-first architectures following public sector integration standards.
Build secure integrations between data platforms, MDM systems, COTS products, and downstream applications.
Ensure scalability, performance, security, and monitoring of integration services.
Support real-time, near real-time, and batch integration patterns.
Security & Compliance
Ensure compliance with government cloud requirements, public sector standards, IM8 governance controls, whole-of-government security requirements, and data protection and access management policies.
Implement secure cloud architecture and governance controls.
Stakeholder & Team Leadership
Manage stakeholders across government agencies and vendors.
Lead distributed technical teams.
Engage senior management and architecture review boards, with strong documentation and communication.
Job Requirements
Experience
10+ years of overall experience (10–15+ preferred), including 8+ years in data engineering and solution architecture and 5+ years of AWS experience.
Proven delivery of mission-critical public sector platforms.
Public Sector Experience (Mandatory)
Delivery experience within government agencies, statutory boards, public sector technology-led initiatives, and government cloud environments.
Strong understanding of public sector delivery methodology, whole-of-government technology standards, IM8 policies and compliance, government procurement and security review processes, and architecture review and governance processes.
Prior Singapore public sector project experience.
Data & ETL
Talend Data Integration and Data Catalog, ETL/ELT architecture, data migration, and data warehousing.
Tableau expertise.
Master Data Management
Hands-on TIBCO EBX, master data governance, reference data management, and data quality management.
Experience migrating MDM solutions to cloud-native platforms is highly preferred.
Application Integration
Strong experience in enterprise application and system integration.
Hands-on with REST APIs, SOAP web services, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, event-driven architectures, and message-based integrations.
Experience integrating AWS-native services, Talend, TIBCO EBX, Tableau, third-party COTS applications, and government shared services.
Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, mTLS, and API security and governance.
Experience with AWS API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Apache Kafka (preferred).
Experience designing canonical data models and enterprise integration patterns.
Strong knowledge of API lifecycle management, versioning, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
Architecture & Governance
Enterprise architecture, data governance frameworks, cloud governance, security architecture, API integration, and microservices.
AWS Infrastructure
Working knowledge of EC2, VPC and networking (subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, NACLs, VPC endpoints), IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Backup, Organizations and SCPs, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, load balancers (ALB/NLB), EBS, EFS, and CloudFormation.
Multi-AZ architecture, high availability, disaster recovery, Infrastructure as Code, encryption at rest and in transit, and S3 lifecycle management.
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