Assistant Director, Engineering Manager, Skills and Workforce Development at GovTech – Singapore | Jobyssey

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

As a strong Technical Lead and Engineering Manager in SWDA you will build the digital foundation of the next Singapore. You will lead agile teams in creating meaningful products that empower Singaporeans to realize their career ambitions and lifelong learning goals, directly fostering a competitive and inclusive nation.

You will provide deep architectural and technical leadership while driving team growth, cultural standards, and delivery excellence. As a leader, you will make your teams effective, set high engineering standards, and foster a growth-oriented culture that supports the development of robust and scalable digital solutions.

Your responsibilities

Collaborating with your respective product and UX leaders in creating and driving a solid, coherent product vision and strategy, as well as setting and measuring objectives for the products in your portfolio, creating and maintaining long-term technical plans and roadmaps for your products
Defining your team’s engineering strategy, and directions that align with the organization’s overall vision and goals
Partnering with stakeholders to prioritise and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently in order to deliver good value to the people of Singapore
Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good
Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact
Providing hands-on technical guidance, architectural oversight, and rigorous design reviews to ensure robust and scalable system architectures
Setting and upholding high engineering standards across the lifecycle, including code quality, comprehensive testing, security-by-design, and operational excellence
Mentoring and technical coaching of engineers to elevate the team & engineering craft and foster a culture of continuous learning
Identify and grow leaders, measurement of success, build and transform team structures in order to make your team effective
Set standards, manage performance, professional growth of people within your organisation, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed
Identify the resourcing needs and drive internal and external hiring for your organisation and beyond

[What we are looking for]

A strong technical background with deep experience in system design and modern architecture, combined with a proven track record of running medium to large teams (10+) with multiple tracks of execution
Experience with solving complex technical issues, e.g. high bar of security requirements, high-availability software systems, co-existence of new and legacy systems, etc.
Experience in modern full-stack technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on NextJs/React and Java/Kotlin/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
Proven ability of providing technical leadership to large teams, track record of driving team effectiveness and products through data.
Strong Engineering practices, Quality and Security mindset.
Passion towards engineering excellence; Evolutionary architecture, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering, Operational excellence.
Passion towards working for public good with interest
Strong technical foundation with experience in modern architectures (e.g.
cloud-native, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps
The ability to set objectives and execute with the team to achieve them together
8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Ability to navigate challenging projects, people and situations.

What we offer you:

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.
Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech

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