Data Architect

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

We are seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and evolve modern data platform architectures across cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, platform teams, and solution architects to translate requirements into scalable and secure architectural designs that enable analytics, governance, and enterprise decision-making.

What you will do:

1. Architecture Design

• Lead the design of modern data architectures including data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouses.
• Define data integration patterns, ingestion pipelines, ETL/ELT frameworks, and real-time/streaming architectures.
• Develop logical, physical, and conceptual data models aligned with business and analytics requirements.
• Ensure scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of data platforms.

2. Platform & Solution Design

• Design data solutions across on-prem, hybrid and cloud platforms.
• Define storage, compute, security, lineage, and metadata frameworks.
• Recommend technology options, architecture decisions, and best practices.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

3. Data Governance & Security

• Implement data governance principles and metadata management frameworks.
• Design access, lineage, cataloging, data quality, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise security, regulatory, and industry standards.

4. Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Work closely with data engineers and delivery teams to ensure successful solution implementation.
• Provide technical leadership during development, integration, and deployment.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design validation, and performance optimisation.
• Produce high-quality architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical specifications.

5.  AI Architecture

The ideal candidate should possess: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
• 5–12 years of experience in data architecture, data platform engineering, or data solution design.
• Strong hands-on experience in modern data platforms (cloud, lakehouse, distributed data).
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT, data modeling, data governance, and security.
• Experience in consulting, or system integration environments is preferred.
• Experience with AI architecture is a strong advantage but not mandatory.

Skills

• Modern cloud data platforms
• Data lake / warehouse / lakehouse
• ETL / ELT & integration pipelines
• Data modeling and metadata
• Data governance & security
• AI and ML architecture patterns
• LLMs, RAG, or GenAI solutions
• Data pipelines for AI workloads
• ModelOps and AI lifecycle considerations
• GPU compute and AI infrastructure

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Self-driven, structured, and detail-oriented.
• Passion for modern data platforms and emerging technologies.

Why Join NCS

• Opportunity to design and build modern enterprise data architectures.
• Work with leading public sector and enterprise clients across APAC.
• Exposure to advanced Data & AI technologies and platforms.
• Professional development and continuous learning environment.
• Collaborative, innovative culture driving real transformation.

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen. 

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.