Company Overview

Join Monks, a leading marketing and technology consultancy specializing in data, creative and digital media services. We are committed to innovation and driving results through data-driven strategies that help to realise significant growth for our clients and partners.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Growth Marketing Specialist, APAC to spearhead our outbound marketing initiatives aimed at enhancing demand generation and funnelling sales-qualified leads (SQLs) to our sales and client teams across APAC markets. Reporting to the APAC Managing Director, you will play a key role in driving our outbound growth initiatives across our breadth of specialist services pillars - including data, media, technology, and creative workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

• Outbound Marketing Strategy: Create and manage effective outbound marketing campaigns to generate and increase our volume of MQL and SQL. 
• Events Management: Lead the organisation of events, focusing on using in-person activities as a tool to generate brand awareness and lead generation.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with senior stakeholders to provide strategic guidance and recommendations for marketing investment.
• Performance Measurement: Develop and implement measurement frameworks to assess marketing effectiveness and prove value to the business.
• Content Planning: Collaborate on the creation of content plans to promote service offerings across social media, events, and technology partnerships.
• Thought Leadership Development: Support subject matter experts in building personal brands through thought leadership initiatives.
• APAC Collaboration: Collaborate with and support all APAC markets to align strategies and share best practices, as well as with global marketing teams.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in a growth marketing role, preferably within professional services, ad-tech or mar-tech sectors, building or influencing the marketing strategy. Experience managing events and driving leads from events is highly valued.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of outbound marketing techniques and demand generation strategies, including SEO and SEM experience.
• Technical Experience: Experience with a variety of online marketing tools and techniques such as Google Ads/SEM, SEO, Social Media, Email Marketing, and more
• Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders.
• Analytical Mindset: Experience in creating measurement frameworks for marketing campaigns.
• Creativity: Innovative thinker with the ability to bring new ideas to improve marketing efforts.

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Get To Know Our Team:

• The BI‑Infra organization owns Agoda’s core data warehouse architecture and operates the platforms that power analytics and BI across the company (e.g., SQL Server DW, SSAS, Vertica, StarRocks, Hadoop, Superset, Metabase, Tableau, Power BI Report Server). Our mission is to maximize system uptime and provide the best possible data and visualization experience to Agoda users. 

• The BI‑Infra DBA sub‑team focuses on database and BI platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency — designing and operating scalable OLAP engines, tuning workloads, defining SLIs/SLOs, and partnering with BI and product teams to keep critical analytics systems healthy at scale. 

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer (BI Infra DBA) to lead the technical direction and operations of our analytics database and BI platforms (StarRocks as the primary analytics engine, Vertica, SQL Server DW, visualization backends, and related services). You will: 

• Own critical database and BI infrastructure end‑to‑end — architecture, performance, reliability, and security. 

• Lead multi‑team initiatives such as expanding StarRocks adoption and leading sql server datawarehouse migration, and major upgrades of visualization/BI tools. 

• Set engineering and operational standards for how we design, deploy, and monitor our BI data platforms, acting as the technical point of contact for BI‑Infra DBA 

What You’ll Do:

• Design and evolve Agoda’s BI data warehouse architecture across SQL Server DW, Vertica, StarRocks, and related services, focusing on availability, scalability, and cost efficiency. 

• Lead migration and modernization projects such as: 

  • Migrating workloads off MSSQL DW to more sustainable platforms (Production standby, data lake, StarRocks, etc.). 

  • Decommissioning legacy components as part of the long‑term DW strategy. 

• Define and implement data and query engine standards (indexing/partitioning patterns, materialized views, retention strategies, governance and access patterns) for BI platforms. 

• Define SLIs/SLOs for key services (StarRocks, Vertica, Tableau, Superset/Metabase, MSSQL DW) and ensure they are instrumented, monitored, and reviewed regularly. 

• Lead incident response for BI‑Infra DBA‑owned platforms: diagnose cross‑system issues (Query Engine - Database, VIz tools, Compute, Storage, Network), post‑mortem/root‑cause analysis, and follow‑up improvements. 

• Partner with BI‑Infra Ops/Dev/Viz and DBDev/DBOps on end‑to‑end reliability — from ingestion pipelines to visualization queries and user traffic patterns. 

• Perform deep query and workload tuning for high‑impact systems (e.g., finance, supply, whitelabel analytics, experimentation, DQ), reducing CPU/memory/IO and improving latency at scale. 

• Optimize resource consumption and license/capacity planning for Query Engine – Database and BI tools. 

• Collaborate with infra and product teams to evaluate and adopt new query engines / database technologies where they materially improve reliability, performance, or cost. 

• Own upgrade and patching strategies for database and BI stacks (OS, engine, drivers), using canary/blue‑green and rollback plans to minimize downtime. 

• Improve and extend CI/CD and deployment automation for database objects, jobs, and configuration (GitLab, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, etc.). 

• Build and maintain observability for BI-Infra DBA services (Grafana, Prometheus/SLO dashboards, alerting, Hedwig/NOC integrations) to detect and act on issues proactively. 

• Implement and maintain secure access patterns for DW and BI platforms (service accounts, RBAC, gMSA, password rotation, SSO/OKTA integration, DR strategy). 

• Partner with security and data governance teams to remediate vulnerabilities within SLAs, enforce data residency constraints, and ensure that upcoming workloads (e.g., whitelabels) are compliant by design. 

• Act as technical lead for BI‑Infra DBA initiatives, collaborating closely with BI‑Infra Ops/Dev/Viz, Database Operation/Development, Infra, and BI product teams. 

• Mentor and coach junior engineers on database performance, reliability, and platform engineering best practices; help raise the bar for design reviews, runbooks, and incident hygiene. 

• Contribute to knowledge sharing - Documents [Confluence, Agoda Internal Document Framework], internal talks, runbooks and help shape the technical roadmap for BI‑Infra DBA. 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering / database engineering / DBA / platform engineering, with at least several years owning production OLAP/BI databases at scale. 

• Strong expertise with StarRocks (or similar modern MPP / columnar systems such as Vertica, ClickHouse, Presto/Trino, Druid, Doris, Impala) and solid SQL Server experience, including: 

  • Query execution internals and tuning (plans, statistics, partitioning, indexing, materialized views). 

  • Capacity planning, storage layout, and backup/restore. 

• Proven experience operating mission‑critical database or BI services in production: 

  • On‑call incident response, debugging across layers, and post‑mortem/root‑cause analysis. 

  • Designing and maintaining SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and alerting for latency/availability/error budgets. 

• Solid understanding of data warehouse and ETL concepts (core DW tables like Fact-Dimension, MSSQL Replication/CDC, Staging patterns, data freshness & consistency, DQ processes). 

• Hands‑on experience with Linux and Windows in production environments (patching, hardening, troubleshooting resource issues). 

• Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD: 

  • Pipelines and deployment automation (GitLab CI, Ansible/AWX, ArgoCD, or similar). 

  • Git‑based workflows for database objects. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills: 

  • Able to represent BI‑Infra DBA as the technical point of contact in cross‑team design and incident discussions at IC4 level. 

  • Comfortable explaining complex trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with StarRocks or similar modern OLAP engines, including: 

  • Designing schemas and materialized views for BI workloads. 

  • Operating clusters across multiple environments (DR, performance/capacity testing, cost tuning). 

• Hands‑on work with Superset, Metabase, Tableau, Power BI Report Server as data consumers — understanding how visualization patterns translate into backend workload and SLOs. 

• Exposure to Hadoop / Data Lakehouse ecosystems (e.g., Impala, Spark, Hive) and strategies for moving workloads from DW to lake/next‑gen engines. 

• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Hedwig/NOC dashboards and alerting), SRE practices, and especially using AI/LLM-based tools to help with log analysis, anomaly detection, or auto-remediation for database/BI engines — this will be a strong plus. 

• Prior technical leadership at IC4 level or equivalent, driving multi‑quarter cross‑team projects and raising engineering standards for reliability, performance, and maintainability. 

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND (RELOCATION PROVIDED)

Get to Know our Team: 

The Supply Analytics team delivers data-driven insights and decision support to optimize Agoda’s supply ecosystem. We analyze partner and marketplace dynamics, build forecasts and models, run experiments, and create scalable dashboards and data products that power strategic direction and operational execution. We bring value through rigorous analyses and pragmatic, measurable recommendations that help Supply, Product and other teams prioritize work and drive impact. Our work improves inventory quality, partner economics, and the long-term health and growth of Agoda.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a Manager/Senior Manager to lead strategic and operational initiatives that create both growth and efficiency for the Supply department. In this role, you will work directly with multiple stakeholders, including executive leadership and various cross-functional departments to successfully implement key initiatives. You will impact Agoda's business through exploring new business opportunities, analyzing complex scaling challenges, and improve existing operations.

In this Role, you’ll get to: 

• General: This role is a blend of hands on ‘in the business’ and executive level ‘on the business’ work. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, leading a team and contributing to strategy.
• Project Delivery: Manage, standardize & validate the structure of business cases for product development, headcount, engineering resources, budgets, general strategic & roadmap prioritization.
• Experimentation: Define success, measure / validate experiments and help ingrain an experimental mindset within the teams.
• Forecasting and Insights: Provide a macro-led business intelligence view to the organization to prevent missed opportunities, surmount obstacles at all organizational levels and drive commercial behaviors.
• Analytics & Alerts: Quantitative analysis, data mining and presentation of business metrics; identify drivers and build an end-to-end communication framework based on business value, effort and urgency.
• Process Improvement: Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize system enhancements.
• Reporting: Build dashboards, internal / external reports and present key datasets to enable all team members to efficiently and effectively monitor performance and prioritize their efforts.
• Leadership: Lead a small team of experts to deliver the above functions and be excited by the challenge of mentoring team members across the chain and connectivity teams.

 What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years of leadership experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy
• 2+ years’ experience leading analytics, operational, product or other technical teams
• Expert domain of data analysis and data visualization tools and software such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, R, or similar
• Strong statistical modelling and machine learning knowledge
• Strong experience in finding data insights and provide business recommendation to the business
• Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate resources.
• Strong program/project management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance)
• Experience in articulating strategic issues and negotiating with C-level executives – experience in leading strategy consulting projects a plus
• People management – track record of developing stars
• Ability and willingness to drive projects independently, working efficiently to deliver results rapidly and engaging the relevant stakeholders throughout the process

It’s Great if you Have:

• Master’s degree in statistics, economics, mathematics or similar discipline
• Experience in conducting A/B testing experimentation
• Travel industry / e-commerce / tech / consulting experience