# Chief Architect - TradeNet

**Company**: GovTech
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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 working on TradeNet, Singapore's National Single Window for trade permit processing, which processes over 9 million permit applications annually. The system is being rebuilt with a modern, cloud-native platform, and you will own the technical coherence of this effort.

Responsibilities:

- Set the overall system architecture for the TradeNet platform

- Make binding technical decisions across teams

- Design for resilience

- Define the architectural guardrails, contracts, and patterns that teams build on

- Lead the technical strategy for decomposing and replacing the legacy monolith

- Reconstruct undocumented business logic from incomplete legacy codebases

- Write architecture documents, design specs, and technical RFCs

- Review code and designs across squads

- Prototype and prove out critical technical approaches

- Lead root-cause analysis on hard production and programme-level technical problems

- Pioneer and refine AI/LLM-assisted approaches to legacy analysis, code generation, test creation, and documentation

- Set the technical standards for how AI-generated output is evaluated, attributed, and held to quality

- Provide technical input to programme-level decisions

- Secure executive alignment on technical direction

Requirements:

- At least 12 years of hands-on software engineering

- Significant time spent as a principal/staff engineer or architect on large-scale systems

- Experience as the overall technical lead across multiple teams

- Deep experience with legacy modernisation

- Strong cloud-native architecture background

- Demonstrated ability to make hard technical calls under ambiguity

- Experience designing defensive/resilient architectures

- Hands-on proficiency in a modern backend stack

- Experience with AI/LLM-assisted engineering

- Strong written technical communication

Benefits:

- Leave benefits to meet your work-life needs

- Employee wellness programs

- Flexible work arrangements

## Skills

### Required
- cloud-native architecture
- legacy modernisation
- AI/LLM-assisted engineering
- defensive/resilient architectures
- modern backend stack
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- Experience in Singapore government technology ecosystem
- Background in trade, customs, regulatory, or financial platform engineering
- Prior engineering management experience
- Experience with data-governance and compliance constraints
- Familiarity with the Java/J2EE legacy ecosystem

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