WHY JOIN US?

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We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.

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We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.

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Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

-Drive the technical design and implementation of large scale data platforms, utilizing modern and open source technologies in a cloud environment. -Optimize data and data pipeline, as well as optimizing data flow and collection. -Ability to provide cost effective, secure and scalable solution which is operationally efficient and -Be able to work on complex data engineering efforts and lead technical teams through the solution design process -Research, evaluate and formally recommend third party software and technology package. -Stay abreast of emerging technologies and projects in the modern Data Engineering/Machine Learning space. -Gather, analyze and process raw data at scale. -Design and develop data applications using selected tools and frameworks as required and requested. -Read, extract, transform, stage and load data to selected tools and frameworks as required and requested. -Collaborate with data stakeholders and stewards on the verification and the accuracy of the information collected. -Provide technical lead to Data Owners and Stewards on data definition, data lineage changes by supporting intake process, performing impact analysis, and conducting domain specific profiling. -Develop custom templates to assure end to end data lineage form Source system of records to reporting data layer. -Engage in data and metric standardization with data stakeholders and steward and solicit formal approval for adoption into data dictionary and glossary to enable end-users improved comprehension of which metrics to use and when to use them.Work closely with the engineering team to integrate your work into our production systems. -Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis and analyze processed data. -Monitoring data performance and modifying infrastructure as needed. -Define data retention policies.

REQUIREMENTS:

WHO YOU ARE:

-BA/BS/MS degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Math background preferred. -5+ years’ experience of Big Data platform implementation, including 3+ years of hands-on experience in implementation and performance tuning EMR/Hadoop/Spark implementations. -Experience Architecting Big Data platforms using Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR distributions -Fluency in python; familiarity with functional languages as well. -Proficient in SQL; experience with Hive -Strong knowledge of AWS data processing architectures and data services such as Redshift, Glue, Kinesis, EMR, Sagemaker, etc. -AWS Solution Architect & Big Data Speciality certification will be an added advantage. -7+ years of experience of IT platform implementation in a highly technical and analytical role. -Knowledge of serverless and micro services will be added advantage. -Strategic, good analytical and problem-solving skills. -Able to formulate technology roadmap and plan out implementation strategy in a systematic and methodological way. -A good level of business knowledge. -Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. -Ability to work with all levels of personnel from business teams to senior management. -Ability to communicate well technically, both orally and in written form. -Ability to deal with ambiguity.