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More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.\nWe started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.\nWe're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read ouroperating principles to see it in full.\nAbout the Team:\nThe Knowledge Platform team is at the heart of our company's data and AI strategy. We are building the foundational infrastructure that empowers the entire company to leverage data, AI, and ML into business impact. We accomplish this by creating platforms that handle the entire data and AI/ML lifecycle, simplifying the interface while providing proper safety and governance. This includes managing our data infrastructure (Databricks, Spark, Kafka, etc.), the technology to serve that data to our users (RAG, MCP, etc.), and the platform to host and govern these AI/ML models.\nIn 2026, our team’s overarching mission is to evolve our full data ecosystem-encompassing both platform and models-into a fully AI agent-ready infrastructure; we will empower customers to engage directly with the data platform to extract actionable value through capabilities like analytics and natural language querying, while also upgrading the platform to deliver robust, real-time performance for instant, data-driven decision-making.\nWhat you'll do\nAs the Engineering Manager for Realtime Data Platform, a team within the Knowledge Platform, you will oversee large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that impact the entire data ecosystem. You will be responsible for defining the multi-year vision and technical roadmap for all real-time data analysis and serving needs, ensuring they are aligned with broader business objectives and product goals. A key aspect of your role will also include scaling the engineering teams, defining new roles, and establishing best practices for communication and collaboration across multiple sub-teams.\nHiring Location: Singapore\nResponsibilities:\nProvide visionary technical leadership and define a clear 1-3 year strategic roadmap for the Realtime Data Platform.\n\nLead the multi-year effort to modernize our core data platform, introducing real-time analytical processing at petabyte scale.\n\nPartner with product teams to enable new data-driven features, such as AI-powered applications or real-time dashboards, by ensuring the underlying platform capabilities are in place.\n\nSuccessfully scale and structure the engineering teams, including hiring new talent and mentoring managers and senior individual contributors.\n\nCultivate and maintain strong relationships with product and other engineering teams, serving as a trusted technical advisor on all things Data and AI.\n\nWho you are\nWe're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.\nMinimum Requirements:\nA minimum of 8 years of experience in data or software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.\n\nProven experience successfully managing and scaling an engineering team of 10+ people, including managers and senior individual contributors.\n\nDemonstrated ability to define and execute a technical strategy that led to a significant business outcome or operational improvement.\n\nStrong command of the data and software engineering domains, with a focus on architecture and strategy.\n\nDeep understanding of distributed data processing technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Databricks) and event streaming (e.g., Kafka).\n\nSolid knowledge of modern data storage and serving technologies, such as CubeJS, ElasticSearch, and Clickhouse, and more.\n\nFamiliarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience within the financial domain.\n\nHands-on design experience in crafting data processing patterns for a modern Lakehouse architecture.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).\n\nAbility to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.\n\nExperience thriving in a complex environment.\n\n#singapore\nApplicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters\nTo protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.\nAirwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.\nEqual opportunity\nAirwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. 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