About the Assignment:
Data Engineers in Grab get to work on one of the largest and fastest growing datasets of any company in South East Asia. We operate in a challenging, fast paced and ever changing environment that will push you to grow and learn. You will be involved in various areas of Grab’s Data Ecosystem including reporting & analytics, data infrastructure, and various other data services that are integral parts of Grab’s overall technical stack.

The Core Objectives:
Build, deploy and manage big data solutions that can adequately handle the needs of a rapidly growing data driven company

Spearhead the development of systems, architectures, and platforms that can scale to the 3 Vs of Big data (Volume, Velocity, Variety)

Streamline data access and security to enable data scientists and analysts to easily access to data whenever they need to

Build out scalable and reliable ETL pipelines and processes to ingest data from a large number and variety of data sources

Maintain and optimize the performance of our data analytics infrastructure to ensure accurate, reliable and timely delivery of key insights for decision making

Lead the movement cleaning and normalizing subsets of data of interest as preparatory step before deeper analysis by the data scientists

Run Modern high performance analytical databases and computation engines like Spark, Flink, Presto, Synapse, BigQuery, Greenplum and others

Essential Experience / Criteria:
A degree or higher in Computer Science, Electronics or Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology or other related technical disciplines.

Experience in handling large data sets (multiple PBs) and working with structured, unstructured and geographical datasets

Designed high performance scalable infrastructure stacks for Big Data Analytics

Desirable Experience / Criteria:
Deep understanding of databases and best engineering practices - include handling and logging errors, monitoring the system, building human-fault-tolerant pipelines, understanding how to scale up, addressing continuous integration, knowledge of database administration, maintaining data cleaning and ensuring a deterministic pipeline

Real passion for data, new data technologies, and discovering new and interesting solutions to the company’s data needs

Excellent communication skills to communicate with the product development engineers to coordinate development of data pipelines, and or any new products features that can be built on top of the results of data analysis

Location & Duration of the Assignment (in Weeks or Months):
6-12 months

About Us

At Echol, we believe technology exists to empower human capabilities. We provide solutions that help Companies in monitoring, tracking, and protecting their assets. Our Data-Mining ability has been proven to help many Companies transcend their business

We combine the best of Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing to deliver actionable video and image insights to solve real world problems. Our innovative video analytics platform serves Smart Cities, Retail Automation, Security and Surveillance for both Government and private enterprises.

Our Team

We do not believe in hierarchy here at Echol. We learn, grow and support each other as a Team. We believe in having open channel of communication, we recognise how hard everyone works at reaching our goals so let’s make life easier and be there and ready to support each other…so who cares who has what title, it's what you do with it that counts!

About the Job

The Technical Project Manager (TPM) is the project owner and the authority to carry out implementation, operational and maintenance management of Echol’s major contracts.

He/ She comes with development skills and is responsible for ensuring that the project will be executed safely, on schedule, conforming to agreed quality and specifications, and at optimal cost. The principal responsibility of the position is to oversee all aspects the project, including solutioning, planning, project management and coordination, engineering, project services, and HSE.

He/she is the main point of contact on all project-relevant events including but not limit to attending periodic project meetings, kick-off, and technical clarifications.

Key responsibilities:

• The TPM is the appointed officer to oversee every stage of the project and ensure that timelines are met according to the project plan.
• He/she leads a team of project engineers and software developers in curating solutions and system deployments.
• He/she leads the operations and maintenance schedules and efficiently allocates manpower for adhoc service requests by the client.
• The role requires a hands on project manager with software development and solution design knowledge and experience.
• He/she is in close contact with the admin team in procuring materials and outsourcing new suppliers/partners in the event that the appointed supplier/partner fails to meet expectations.
• He/she attends to periodic meetings set by the client and prepares what is expected of during the meeting e.g. progress weekly report, solution to any problems encountered, etc.

Requirements:

• Engineering (Electrical/Telecommunications/Computer) or Computing Science Degree qualifications
• Project Management Certification (such as PMI) is preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in managing wide-scale software and hardware implementation projects (Project Experience with Singapore government projects will be highly desirable)
• Significant experience in system integration, IT Industry, defining and solutioning Digital Applications
• Understanding of both waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, as well as DevOps solution delivery
• Proficient in various Microsoft 360 applications and Project Management software
• Proficient in at least one programming language
• Familiar with Full Stack development skills and related processes

Competencies:

• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the attitude to coach team members to produce the same outputs.
• Up to date knowledge of technical applications.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions.
• Ability to see the big picture and full project lifecycle as well as giving attention to the smallest details such as costs and risks.
• Ability to work under pressure and accommodate client concerns efficiently.
• Ability to establish rapport and maintain relationships with various external and stakeholders in different levels of organizations both internally and externally (e.g. vendors, colleagues, local authorities, clients).
• Class 3 license will be a bonus.

Why join us?

• You will get to be part of a team which collaborate, cooperate and ideate as a team from across the business.
• Performance based remuneration package
• You will be part of an AI company with both government and private business exposure

Mandatory Skills:

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in developing applications using RESTful, Java/J2EE, framework, API Manager
• Should be strong in Core Java 8 or Higher
• Java Skills
• Hands on experience in Java development
• Hands on experience on cloud native application development in Microservice environment development using Twelve-Factor App
• Knowledge on Microservice deployment tools (Gateway, Service Discovery)
• Microservice architecture’s layer such as resources, repositories and aggregates
• Components of microservices
• Best Practices in Microservices
• Microservice Design Pattern
• CI/CD (Tools for Quality check/Security Testing : SoanarLint/SonarQube/Fortify)
• Debug in Microservices (Sleuth and Zipkin)
• Unit testing, Component Testing and Contract Testing
• Strong knowledge in Object Oriented Concepts
• Ability to provide the guidance and over foresee junior java developer work
• Good knowledge on Design patterns and development frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, JPB, JDBC Templates)
• Prior work experience in designing and development of reusable frameworks, platform and components
• Prior work experience in TDD, unit testing tools and frameworks (Mockito, Spring test)
• Hands on experience in automating the code integration and deployments of applications (Java and Angular)
• Ability to create design documents using UML and other modelling techniques
• Hands on experience in developing RESTful services using Spring web.
• Strong knowledge in exceptional handling.
• Knowledge in reporting frameworks like BIRT or any other open source framework
• Good knowledge on DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD concepts
• Work experience in Deploy and Release automation in Microservice environment
• Good understanding of Jenkins, Nexus repository, maven, grunt, gulp build tools

Responsibilities:

• Test development for new product attaining low cost test solution and high-test coverage.
• Test/handler solution platform migration and correlation to attain low test cost and address test setup capacity constraints.
• Test time reduction.
• Support test solution transfer to test suppliers.
• Perform yield analysis and contribute to test process improvements.
• Responsible for overseeing product reliability stresses as well as new package qualification stresses and test results.
• Responsible for “Technical Product Knowledge” required to guide and support subcontractor front line factory Test Engineers.
• Support production volume ramp from new product transfers in Asia test supplier sites.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Subcontractors as well as Silicon Laboratories Supplier Management Team in resolving product testing issues.
• Track and report monthly and quarterly test yields to ensue conformance to planned targets.
• Evaluate and manage product disposition when yield variances are reported.
• Exceed quality standards to provide best-in-class product quality.
• Provide remote debug and technical support to offshore factory sites.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required. Preferred in Electrical Engineering or Electronics Engineering or Master’s Degree with reduced minimum years of experience required.
• ~5 years or more experience in ATE knowledge with preference on Teradyne J750 and IFLEX/UFLEX testers
• Test software knowledge with proficiency in C++, VB programming with experience in statistical tools
• Lead or heavy involvement in Product Test Engineering cost savings or improved efficiency projects
• Strong knowledge of statistical method and process control
• Familiarity with quality procedure and documentation.
• Excellent communication skills as well as detail-oriented work ethic.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement process enhancements and improved efficiencies.
• Project management knowledge.