Job Description

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) seeks to transform the delivery of Government Digital Services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. We also develop the Smart Nation infrastructure and applications, and facilitate collaboration with the public to co-develop technologies.

Join us as we support Singapore\xe2\x80\x99s vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering.

As part of the Data Engineering team in GovTech\xe2\x80\x99s Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division, you will be building Whole-of-Government data infrastructure to power the insights needed for evidence-based decision-making and enhancing agencies\xe2\x80\x99 service-delivery. You will be architecting, designing and building next-generation data infrastructure to galvanise digitalisation in the public sector. You will be given opportunities to lead other engineers to drive impact at scale.

We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate candidates to join us in this journey to make a difference as an Engineering Manager to lead a team of Data Engineers.

What you will be working on:

• Involve in the design and building of resilient and efficient data pipelines for both batch and real-time streaming data
• Involve in the architecture and design of data infrastructure on cloud using industry standard Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Execute projects with an Agile mindset
• Build software frameworks to solve data problems at scale
• Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data analysts and data scientists to build scalable and data-driven platforms and tools
• Be put in the driving seat as an engineering leader

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Computer Science or have equivalent professional experience
• Have at least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership and management role
• Experience with data processing tools such as Spark, Beam, Flink
• Experience with the cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience implementing batch and streaming data pipelines
• Experience writing efficient SQL
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases, including performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Familiar with DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Terraform
• Experience in leading and managing teams
• Experience in developing the capabilities of engineers by providing effective mentorship and training opportunities
• Experience in the public sector is a bonus
• Keep the team aligned using project management systems to track task progress and recalibrating as necessary
• Ability to identify bottlenecks and roadblocks in engineering processes and clear them

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company as we believe that diversity is meaningful to innovation. Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. This includes generous leave benefits to meet your work-life needs. We trust that you will get the job done wherever you are, and whatever works best for you \xe2\x80\x93 so work from home or take a break to exercise if you need to*. We also believe it\xe2\x80\x99s important for you to keep honing your craft in the constantly-evolving tech landscape, so we provide and support a plethora of in-house and external learning and development opportunities all year round

*Subject to the nature of your job role that might require you to be onsite during fixed hours

Government Technology Agency