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.
You will be part of the Government Productivity Engineering (GPE) team, which builds and runs the shared platforms public officers use to do their work. Specifically, you will lead the Cloud Programme, which builds and runs the shared cloud engineering capabilities and hosting services that support agencies across the whole of government.
The role has three core responsibilities:
- Build and lead a strong cloud engineering organisation
- Own the technical health of government cloud platforms and hosting services
- Transform Hosting Support Services for the whole of government
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading multiple engineering teams and setting the technical direction and operating model for government cloud engineering
- Ensuring Hosting Support Services delivers reliable, transparent, and scalable outcomes for agencies
- Developing Engineering Managers and technical leaders, and creating the conditions for teams to deliver consistently across government
- Setting consistent engineering standards and quality expectations across the Programme
- Establishing proportionate technical governance for decisions that cut across products, platforms, and squads
Requirements:
- Proven engineering leadership experience, including managing Engineering Managers or leading multiple platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering teams
- Strong cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering depth, with experience across public cloud, private or sovereign hosting, automation, security, networking, observability and distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into architecture, service models, technical roadmaps and executable delivery plans
- Strong commercial and vendor-management judgement, with the ability to connect engineering decisions to service quality, cost transparency and sourcing choices