Job Description

What the role is
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) utilises state-of-art technology and technical know-how to safeguard Singapore's security and sovereignty. Given the ever-growing complexity of the operating landscape, we need Data Product Designers who can craft modern and data-rich solutions that can convey key insights and business intelligence, therein communicating effectively at both micro and macro levels. By wielding cutting-edge technologies alongside user interaction design skills, Data Product Designers play a key role in rendering large and complex data sets accessible, understandable and usable to stakeholders. Apart from an interest in building products that facilitate sense-making and a passion for furthering data analytics, candidates should be driven by our mission to make Singapore a safer home, and also enjoy working on challenging, diverse and unique problem statements. You will be supported by a team of highly technical and collaborative colleagues, and equipped with training opportunities, including leading conferences and courses.
What you will be working on
- Design and build highly interactive data products to drive operational excellence for various stakeholders o Architect customisable mission-critical dashboards to meet MHA's operational and organisational objectives o Craft multi-faceted, novel visualisations and intuitive interactions to facilitate sense-making, insight generation, and the co-analysis of complex datasets - Work closely with data solutioning teams to create and implement data-UX strategies (e.g. data and visual hierarchies) and design data pipelines to engineer the consumption of data sources - Utilise design thinking skills to gather user feedback and assist business clients with solution crafting and insight distillation via various commercial analytics products - Refining assets, artifacts and products based on feedback so as to ensure operational relevance, and continued accuracy and functionality - Implement best practices of UX design to ensure a consistent design language
What we are looking for
- Singaporeans Citizens only - Applicants with no prior relevant work experience in data analytics may apply (e.g. technical marketing and communication field of studies) - Empathetic, open-minded, resourceful and meticulous professionals who are passionate about designing and building data products to empower and enrich users - Able to work independently and in teams - Ability to keep the overarching objectives of the project in mind while pursuing the technical details - Competent in information management (e.g. architecting and delivery of information and visual hierarchies) - Familiar with Databases and/or associated with data-wrangling tools (e.g. Power Query, DAX, pandas, D3.js, SQL, Redis, NoSQL, neo4j) - Familiar with at least one programming language (e.g. Python, JavaScript) - Knowledge and experience with any of the following would be an advantage: o Data Analytics (e.g. Descriptive Statistics, modelling) o Web Development and UX/UI frameworks (e.g. HTML5, ES6, CSS3, Python 3, jQuery, Vue.js, React.js, DOM, Shadow DOM) o Web-based data visualisation and associated interactivity (e.g. D3.js, Python Dash) o Software-based data visualisation and dash-boarding (e.g. Tableau, MS Power BI, Qlik Sense, Qlik View) o Geospatial-temporal data visualisation and associated interactivity (e.g. Leaflet.js, ArcGIS JS) o Network graph visualisation and associated interactivity (e.g. Gephi, Neovis.js) o Design thinking (e.g. crafting efficient and sensible user paths) All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.