
Senior Data Engineer, Virtual Insurance at AIFT (Taiwan)
AIFT· Taiwan·
Job description
[Job Overview] We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our engineering team and play a key role in building and scaling our enterprise data platform. You will design, develop, and maintain high-quality data warehouses and data-driven applications that power analytics, reconciliation, and business decision-making across the organization. This role requires strong expertise in modern data architectures, pipeline engineering, and data quality management. The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical capability with a deep commitment to reliability, scalability, and governance in a regulated environment.
[Responsibilities]
- Data operations: own day-to-day operations of data platforms/pipelines capacity, stability, upgrades, deployments, and recovery drills to sustain high availability and low latency.
- Data collection: design/manage multi-source ingestion (exchanges, internal and external systems), protocol parsing, and robust retry mechanisms.
- Develop rule-based and statistical data quality checks (completeness, uniqueness, time alignment, anomaly detection, error handling).
- Implement automated remediation, reconciliation workflows, and historical backfilling.
- Establish monitoring and alerting frameworks to ensure trusted, production-grade datasets.
- End-to-End pipelines: plan and maintain scalable ETL/ELT including scheduling, caching, partitioning, modelling, schema evolution, and lineage to support both batch and real-time streaming.
- Enforce data access controls, encryption, auditing, and classification to comply with internal policies and external regulatory requirements (including PII management).
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, data versioning, data tests, and CI/CD to improve predictability and reduce manual risk.
- Contribute to embedded GenAI and LLM-powered data applications for enterprise analytics, reconciliation, and internal productivity use cases.
- Partner with analytics and product teams to operationalize AI-driven data solutions.
[Requirements]
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform architecture, or AI/ML engineering.
- Strong experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Hands-on experience building BI data foundations and supporting GenAI / LLM architectures.
- Proficiency in SQL and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow), streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and pipeline design best practices.
- Solid understanding of data warehouse development lifecycles and dimensional modeling concepts.
- Familiarity with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.
- Working knowledge of data governance, lineage, privacy, and security frameworks.
Why work at AIFT
- Mission-driven: Work at the intersection of AI and finance to solve real-world problems in banking, risk, and trade.
- Young and growing: Described as a "young company" with opportunities to get in "on the ground floor" and grow as projects gain momentum. hkaift.com
- International connections: Collaborations with top universities and global financial institutions provide a broader perspective.
- Practical skill development: Talent training is part of the mission – developers and analysts can build expertise in FinTech ecosystems (Python, Spring Boot, Docker, blockchain, etc.). hkaift.com
- Vibrant community: Active member of Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong’s largest R&D base, with access to a network of tech companies and events.
- Work environment: Office-based in Hong Kong Science Park (Shatin); roles include Software Engineer, Assistant Quantitative Analyst, Data Analyst, and Research Assistant. hkaift.com
- Culture: Emphasizes open innovation, cross-boundary collaboration (universities, VCs, financial institutions), and a flat, research-driven atmosphere.