Data Platform Principal Architect
Airwallex • singapore, singapore • Posted June 14, 2026
About the Role
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Principal Architect who operates at the intersection of platform architecture, customer-facing data products, and AI enablement. This is not a traditional infrastructure role. Your mandate is to architect the governed, reusable data, knowledge, and skill layer that powers analytics, AI agents, and real‑time decision systems across the business.
Responsibilities
- Data Layer: Design the patterns for governed, well‑modeled structured datasets—from transactional records and event streams to dimensional models and feature tables. Ensure high quality, strong lineage, and regional compliance are baked in to the foundation, keeping it clean, trusted, and queryable.
- Knowledge Layer: Architect the semantic layer that makes data meaningful to both humans and machines. Includes business metric definitions, entity relationships, and contextual documentation. Ensure an analyst or an AI agent can ask 'what is our net...