Description
We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Engineering Manager that drives technical excellence and team growth by setting strategic direction, building high-performing engineering teams, and ensuring sustainable delivery.
The Engineering Manager is required to work on technically challenging problems in an environment running like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining the team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization's overall vision and goals.
- Collaborating with Product and UX partners to shape the squad's technical and delivery goals.
- Balancing new feature delivery with technical sustainability, maintainability, and risk mitigation.
- Building a high-performing, lean team with the right mix of skills, experience, and growth potential.
- Coaching and developing engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and career growth planning.
- Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize impact on the public good.
- Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Ensuring the team ships high-quality software predictably and improves over time.
- Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant professional work experience relating to software engineering, solution engineering, or system engineering.
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience.
- Minimal 3 years of business analyst experience in software development projects and Agile methodologies.
- Minimal 3 years of experience working in an Agile environment and Cloud platform.
- Experience with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC), SHIP-HATS, and SG Tech Stack (SGTS).
- 8+ years of experience working in modern full-stack application technologies.
- Proven track record of implementing large-scale, high-availability Salesforce solutions, preferably in the public sector.
- Knowledge of data protection regulations and privacy considerations in the public sector.
- Proven track record of people management and being able to develop individuals' careers and motivation to achieve team outcomes.
- Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
- Strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader.
- Passion towards engineering excellence and working for the public good.
This is a 2-year fixed-term contract.