Vice President, Azure Data Technical Lead (JRI-4391)

The Japan Research Institute (JRI) Limited is a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Group. SMBC Group is a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management. JRI provides comprehensive, highly value-added information services through the coordinated application of its 3 functions i.e. information systems, consulting and think-tank. As a system integrator, JRI offers services in IT strategy planning, implementation and outsourcing to a broad range of industries and activities. JRI Singapore currently supports the overall IT functions of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in the Asia Pacific region.

The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in data platform engineering, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a scalable, secure, and high-performing data platform on Microsoft Azure. This role also involves leading a team of data engineers and working closely with enterprise architects to deliver enterprise-grade solutions that support analytics, data science, and business intelligence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, deployment, and maintenance of the Azure data platform.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency through proactive monitoring and optimization.
• Implement and manage platform governance, access control, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Evaluate and integrate new Azure services and tools to enhance platform capabilities.
• Work closely with solution architects and engineers to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Provide technical and thought leadership as a senior member of the Analytics Practice in areas such as data access & ingestion, data processing, data integration, data modelling, database design & implementation, data visualization, and advanced analytics.
• Develop best practices including reusable code, libraries, patterns, and consumable frameworks for cloud-based data warehousing and ETL.
• Maintain best practice standards for the development or cloud-based data warehouse solutioning including naming standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Manage Information Science, Banking and Finance or equivalent.
• Min. 10 years of experience in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Realtime data integration or Business Intelligence
• Min. 3 years of experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect or Technical Lead
• Min. 2 years of experience in managing technical team and leading on Azure data platform implementation.
• Knowledge in both traditional and modern data architecture and processing concepts such as SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and business analytics
• Expertise in designing scalable, domain-oriented data architectures.
• Familiarity with data modeling, metadata management, and schema evolution 
• Proficiency in Databricks is a must.
• Experience in technology skillsets:
• Azure database platforms e.g. Azure SQL database, Azure Databricks, Azure data Lake Gen2
• Azure data integration tools e.g. Azure Synapse, Azure Data factory, Azure Event Hub.
• Data visualisation tools e.g. QlikView, Power BI
• Programming language: R & Python
• Proven experience in managing and scaling enterprise data platforms, included:
• Hands-on experience building and scaling enterprise data platforms.
• Deep understanding of platform operations, including reliability, cost optimization, and user enablement.
• Familiarity with platform governance, access control, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Possess architectural sense in connecting data sources, data visualization, structured and unstructured data.
• Candidates with traditional ETL knowledge may be considered.
• Knowledge in financial sector technologies, products and services will be an advantage.
• Able to multi-task in a challenging technical environment to deliver high quality solutions
• A meticulous team player who has proactive and positive attitude
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills