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