Description
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.
The mission of GovTech's Data Programme is to deliver fit-for-purpose data assets and services for policy making, service delivery and operations across Whole-of-Government (WOG). Our programme creates value through enablement - reducing friction for agencies so they can move faster and make better decisions in their work with existing government datasets.
Key Technical Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development of one or more of our four strategic technical initiatives:
- Standardised Data Platform: Build and maintain unified data platform infrastructure for government agencies, develop APIs and services that standardise data ingestion, processing, and storage, create reusable components and templates for agency data platform implementation, implement data connectors and integration tools for legacy systems
- Unified Frontend / DataHive: Develop the central data discovery and access request platform, build intuitive user interfaces for data catalogue browsing and metadata search, implement request management workflows and approval systems, create responsive web applications that serve both data consumers and providers
- Unified Serving Backbone: Design and implement standardised data delivery APIs and microservices, build robust data serving infrastructure that can handle high-volume requests, develop authentication and authorisation systems for secure data access, create monitoring and alerting systems for data delivery pipelines
- Observability & Governance Infrastructure: Build central observability systems for data quality monitoring and lineage tracking, develop dashboards and analytics tools for data usage patterns, implement automated data quality checks and validation frameworks, create audit trails and compliance reporting systems
You will work on both small and large scale projects, building and maintaining the infrastructure behind them. We are fully aligned with the Government's cloud-first policy and you will bring capability to help us realize this.
The role includes:
- Managing the development, deployment, orchestration and maintenance of data pipelines for our products
- Ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of Cloud-based applications
- Providing DevOps architecture implementation and operational support
- Architecture and planning for cloud deployments (Private and Public cloud)
- Developing and managing processes, automation, best practices, documentation
- Development and operation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines
What it is like working here:
- Rapid Prototyping: Instead of spending too much time debating ideas we prefer testing them.
- Reliable Productization: To scale an idea, a prototype or a Minimum Viable Product to a software product, we scrutinize and commit to its usability, reliability, scalability and maintainability.
- Ownership: In addition to technical responsibilities, this means having ideas on how things should be done and taking responsibility for seeing them through.
- Continuous Learning: Working on new ideas often means not fully understanding what you are working on.
To succeed, you will need to possess some of the following:
- Excellent problem solving and methodical troubleshooting skills
- Strong knowledge and experience in DevOps automation, containerization and orchestration using tools eg. Ansible, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Artifactory/Nexus Sonatype
- Cloud computing deployment and management experience in AWS, GCP
- Strong scripting skills e.g. Python, Bash, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Go
- Strong understanding of Apache Spark/Flink, Hadoop, distributed file systems and resource scaling/scheduling, streaming message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Strong understanding of virtualization and networking concepts
- Experience with patch maintenance, regression testing and security incident response
- Experience with interactive workloads, machine learning toolkits and how they integrate with cloud computing e.g. Databricks, KX
- Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
- Experience with on-premise deployments, government application and networking infrastructure/routing
- Breadth of knowledge - OS, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing