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.
At GovTech, you can build technology that improves public services while developing your craft alongside engineers working across a wide range of public-sector systems. The GovTech Software Engineering Practice improves how software is built, tested, shipped and maintained across the Government. We develop shared engineering standards and capabilities, support their adoption, and use evidence to understand whether they are improving outcomes.
As the Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness, Software Engineering Practice, you will lead a new Engineering Effectiveness Measurement pillar. You will bring together and extend measurement capabilities that already exist within the Software Engineering Practice and partner teams. You will establish a coherent approach to measuring developer experience, engineering capability and delivery outcomes, then turn that evidence into practical decisions about platforms, tools and ways of working.
Responsibilities:
- Align and extend our measurement capability
- Run developer experience research
- Measure and improve engineering maturity
- Evaluate the impact of AI engineering
- Turn evidence into decisions
- Turn findings into improvements
- Collaborate across the Practice
- Develop capability across GovTech
Requirements:
- Substantial experience in software engineering, engineering data, developer experience, engineering effectiveness or a closely related discipline
- Experience designing measurement approaches for complex technical or organisational systems
- Strong quantitative skills, including working with metrics, analytics, statistics and dashboards
- Experience with qualitative research methods
- A thoughtful understanding of engineering measurement frameworks such as DORA and SPACE
- Sound judgement about privacy, incentives and the unintended consequences of measurement
- The ability to turn incomplete or contested evidence into a clear narrative
- Experience operating as a Principal-level individual contributor
- A record of working across organisational boundaries and building shared ownership with engineering, platform, data and leadership teams
Benefits:
- GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives
- Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks
- Flexible work arrangements
- Leave benefits and employee wellness programs