Job Description

What the role is
The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) aims 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 citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies. Join us as we support Singapore’s vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering. GovTech is seeking for a technical product manager to support the product architecture and management of CODEX (Core Operations Development Environment and xChange) platform. CODEX is a strategic national project and the CODEX platform presents a huge opportunity to rationalise and consolidate federated agency hosting and infrastructure through a modern cloud architecture implementation and the modernising of Government applications through adoption of agile development practices.
The role is expected to leverage and work closely with the engineering teams to deliver the Singapore Tech Stack (SGTS) and Government on Commercial cloud (GCC). Establish deep collaboration with the product development groups and play an active role in developing the product roadmap for CODEX. Particularly, this role will focus on the product definition of a core GCC offering to agencies and their vendors.
Besides working with internal teams, the incumbent is expected to experiment with third-party tools both open-source and commercial, and partner with solution providers in evaluating commercial Tech Stack components and capabilities, mapping out integration plans and institutionalising the processes and practices.
What you will be working on
• Manage and sustain an efficient and agile product development process with the engineering team • Adopt a continuous improvement mindset and a scientific approach to innovation • Exercise technical leadership, as appropriate, to drive scalable design across multi-disciplinary engineering capabilities • Define CODEX product plans for a specific set of features around identity and access management, and establishing secure network channel communications • Understand developers needs and explore emerging tools and techniques that can meet the needs • Write user stories that address customer needs, with success criteria defined upfront • Work closely with technical internal teams including engineering and development to prioritize user stories and groom them • Partner with internal engineering teams such as architects, developers, engineers to ensure product is delivered with an acceptable quality and in a timely manner • Analyze the outcome to acquire learnings to feedback into the specific product features in the next iteration • Share CODEX vision opportunistically and help drive use of CODEX product with engineers and agencies stakeholders The role offers a unique opportunity to create pathway for success for Singapore and its citizens and residents.
What we are looking for
An experienced technical product manager, ideally with experience in various parts of the product lifecycle management. Possess technical competence and strong business acumen, with the ability to balance engineering constraints and business priorities to achieve good delivery outcomes. Critical competencies required but are not limited to: • Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering or equivalent • Experience in one or more aspects of product launch • Business know-how and appreciation of the existence of different type of business to consumer models • Experience in setting a product /technology plan or roadmap based on requirements • Ability to rally cross-functional team to execute against plans to meet objectives • Awareness of the implications of business and technological trade-offs and ability to make the right call with some guidance • Empathise with developer and management needs • Excellent analytical skills with a few specialized knowledge of business and analytical tools and techniques • Strong communications with different job functions and ability to communicate a few levels up and down • Ideally past or current practitioner of agile software development • Domain expertise in cloud-based identities and access management, IAM, and how IAM work alongside network security, such as TLS, to achieve zero-trust networks is highly preferred • Awareness and experience on one or more cloud service offerings 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 – so work from home or take a break to exercise if you need to*. We also believe it’s 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