Data Platform Engineer

About the Job

Location: Taguig

Corporate Title: Junior Officer to Senior Manager

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Our Enterprise Data Office team is looking for experienced professionals to join us in Taguig with the role of Data Platform Engineer.

In this role you will design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade data platforms, pipelines, and services that power analytics and machine learning workloads across the bank. You will ensure secure, scalable, and reliable delivery through DataOps and MLOps practices, with responsibilities ranging from junior support in operations to executive-level leadership in architecture and strategy.

Your dream. Our focus.

East West Banking Corporation (EastWest) is one of the largest universal banks in the Philippines, and is committed to continuously invest in people and in process, product, and service enhancements, and embrace new ideas to enhance the EastWest experience.

We empower our employees to drive their careers and are committed to provide the runway for them to grow. We value teamwork and individual initiative. Join us and be part of a highly engaged team, and a workplace that promotes development and goal attainment.

Whether you're just starting out, or already a seasoned professional, EastWest can help you unleash your potential, and bridge the gap between dream to success.

What the role will entail

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native data platforms leveraging Databricks, dbt, Kafka, and cloud services.
• Operationalize data and machine learning pipelines with CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and monitoring aligned to DataOps and MLOps practices.
• Automate pipeline deployment and manage environment changes using GitLab and integrated testing frameworks.
• Ensure pipelines meet performance, quality, and security standards, incorporating audit, lineage, and monitoring controls.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Risk, Engineering, and IT Operations to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant data and ML environments.
• Support platform upgrades, incident response, and initiatives that enhance platform maturity and resilience.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in either Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Preferred certifications include dbt, Databricks, Confluent Kafka, Cloud (Azure/AWS), and GitLab CI/CD.
• Over 10 years of professional experience, including proven leadership in DataOps and MLOps.
• Strong skills in dbt, Databricks, Kafka, orchestration tools, Python, SQL, CI/CD practices, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization; familiarity with banking data governance and compliance frameworks is a plus.
• Demonstrated competencies in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, responsibility, results focus, and leadership, with increasing expertise expected across junior to lead roles.

What you can expect from joining our team

• Career development and training opportunities
• Competitive salary package and benefits
• Performance-based incentives and recognition programs to reward high-performing individuals
• Opportunity to work with industry experts and be mentored by them
• Defined career progression paths to guide you in your professional growth