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.
The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) is Singapore's lead ministry for social and family policies, working to build a caring and inclusive society where every individual and family can thrive.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to work on technically challenging problems in an environment running like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector. The problems we work on include digital services that support Singaporeans on their parenthood journey.
Responsibilities
- Defining your team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organisation's overall vision and goals
- Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritise and manage roadmaps for delivering product vision incrementally and efficiently
- Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed, updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product and infrastructure requirements
- Regularly engaging with engineers in conversations about their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed
- Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team
- Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximise impact on the public good through developing and evolving the enterprise architecture
- Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering effectiveness and impact
- Establishing and driving the MSF Engineering Landscape , building engineering visibility and standards from the ground up across a portfolio of 30+ systems and multiple vendors, including Infrastructure-as-Code (creation, patching, remediation), CI/CD (build, test, deploy), and compliance posture (audits, VAPT, risk management), using leading and lagging metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency to drive measurable improvement across teams and vendors
- Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires
Requirements
- Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale
- Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred
- Strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just technical ability
- Passion for engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering
- The ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together
- 2+ years of experience coaching developers, helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers
- Comfort operating in an environment where engineering maturity is being built, not inherited , able to objectively assess the current state across teams and vendors, identify gaps, and create a structured path to improvement
- Passion for working in the public interest
What we offer
- 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.
- 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.