Director, Data Engineering

5 Dec 2025

Director, Data Engineering

Category: Data And Analytics Division

Job Type:

Facility: Data & Analytics

Job Purpose

The job holder responsible for:

• Leads team to design and develop programs, algorithms and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from disparate sources and implement complex business logic as needed with the available data processing tools.
• Integrates new data sources to increase throughput of existing systems, manages data pipelines that facilitate robust analysis, and sources và prepares data to ensure data completeness on metadata platforms.

Key Accountabilities (1)

Data Architecture

• Deliver functionality required for business and data analysts, data scientists and other business roles to advance the overall analytic performance and strategy of the bank
• Build the best practices and strategies for data infrastructure to fulfill data analytic and utilization needs of the business with emerging latest technologies and capabilities.
• Guide the team or teams in identifying opportunities to manage data and provide solutions for complex data feeds within the bank.
• Evaluate various data architectures in the bank and utilize them to develop data solutions to meet business requirements.
• Drive the delivery of data products and services into systems and business processes in compliance with internal regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the review of internal and external business and product requirements for data operations and activity and suggests changes and upgrades to systems and storage to accommodate ongoing needs.

Key Accountabilities (2)

Data Integration

• Strategically obtain and integrate data and information from various sources into the firm's platforms, solutions and statistical models.
• Lead discussion with Data Scientists to understand the data requirements and create re-usable data assets to enable data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models faster.
• Design, build, and maintain optimized data pipelines and ETL solutions as business support tools in providing analysis and real time analytics platform for critical decision making.
• Ensure data assets are organized and stored in an efficient way so that information is high quality, reliable, flexible, and efficient.

Project Management

• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at high performance.
• Work with team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks, conduct post mortem and root cause analyses to improve practices for maximum productivity.

Key Accountabilities (3)

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

- Oversee human resources planning and execution (headcount & costs) of their function/ sub- function

- Attract, onboard and retain the right talents for a high- performing team

- Establish and communicate sub- function/ function and individual KRAs/ KPIs, goals, action plan, expectations and results to reporting line

- Manage sub- function/ function performance & provide feedback regularly (following the annual performance management cycle)

• Define team's capability requirements and enable team member's professional and personal development through capability assessment, training, coaching & feedback, mentoring, etc.

• Motivate and recognize team members' contributions towards the team's shared goals

• Responsible for developing talents within the function/ sub- function

• Act as a role model and promote corporate culture at function/ sub- function level

• Understand & communicate relevant HR offerings to team members.

Success Profile - Qualification and Experiences

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Analysis, Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology

Work Experience

• 10–12+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Big Data platforms, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record in building and operating large-scale Data Lake/Platform solutions in banking or financial services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and modern data frameworks (Databricks, Apache Spark).
• English proficiency requirements are pursuant to Techcombank's policy
• Deep experience in designing and building dimensional data models, ETL processes, applied data warehouse concepts and methodologies, optimized data pipelines and wore the architect hat in the past or worked with one extensively
• Deep experience with monitoring complex system and solving data and systems issues having a consistent and algorithmic approach to resolving them
• Deep understanding of Information Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of all data
• Proven track-record in working in Agile teams to lead company-wide successful digital transformation initiatives and change management, having mastered and mentored on Agile principles, practices and Scrum methodologies
• Mastery in Data và Analytics and is an industry expert on the latest data-related technology trends
• Having a long history of architecting, coding and delivering high performance micro services and/or recommenders delivering recommendations to (tens of) millions of users

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