Description
The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to be forward deployed to Civil Service College as part of its data team. The successful candidate will oversee the agency's overall structure of its data ecosystems, define the data architecture vision, and establish frameworks and standards on how data is collected and integrated.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain enterprise data architecture, including data models, integration frameworks, and storage solutions based on business requirements.
- Govern schema design standards and data integrations across multiple source systems while collaborating with stakeholders like system engineers, vendors, and business units.
- Architect and build data pipelines while ensuring data is well-structured for analysis and reporting.
- Optimise system and pipeline performance through ongoing monitoring and implementation of scalable solutions designed to handle expanding data volumes and growing organisational demands.
- Lead a team of data engineers to solve intractable data problems.
- Lead and collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, analysts, infrastructure teams, and vendors to understand data requirements and ensure that data systems are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business objectives.
- Maintain data quality, integrity, security, and compliance standards across data systems.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in data architecture and data engineering, with a demonstrated track record of successfully delivering large-scale project implementations.
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in cloud technologies such as AWS infrastructure and native AWS tools (CloudWatch and Glue).
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in data modelling, data access, and data storage infrastructure including Data Lake, Data Virtualisation, and Data Warehouse for efficient storage and retrieval.
- Minimum 2 to 4 years of experience in REST API and web requests/protocols.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving competencies.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with diverse project teams.
Benefits:
- GovTech offers a total rewards approach, providing a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks, including leave benefits and employee wellness programs. Flexible work arrangements are also available, subject to job role.