# Assistant Director, Programme Management, 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 across import, export, and transshipment.

Responsibilities:

- Drive technical programme alignment across TradeNet, ensuring that priorities, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions are managed with clear ownership and cadence.

- Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, product, and delivery teams to coordinate technical plans, support delivery readiness, and ensure workstreams move together.

- Manage programme-level technical risks, delivery risks, compliance considerations, and cross-team dependencies.

- Support risk and compliance management by coordinating inputs, tracking remediation actions, and maintaining visibility of programme-level obligations.

- Run technical programme meetings and stakeholder discussions.

- Support Agile/Scrum ways of working across multiple engineering teams.

- Establish and maintain project management tooling across all workstreams.

- Translate complex technical issues into clear summaries for programme leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

- Identify technical blockers and cross-team dependencies early, driving rapid resolution.

- Champion the adoption of AI tooling and automated workflows within project management processes.

- Support continuous improvement in delivery practices, governance, reporting, risk management, and ways of working across the programme.

Requirements:

- At least 8 years of experience in software development and ICT project management, technical programme management, delivery management, or a related role.

- Experience managing delivery risks, technical risks, compliance obligations, audit items, security findings, remediation plans, or similar programme-level obligations.

- Strong judgement and ownership to operate independently across multiple technical teams, stakeholders, and workstreams.

- Technical fluency to work effectively with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, product, and delivery teams.

- Familiarity with cloud delivery, cybersecurity, compliance, and large-scale complex systems.

- Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to align different viewpoints, clarify trade-offs, and move discussions towards clear outcomes.

- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues simply to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Experience working with technical teams using Agile or Scrum practices.

- Familiarity with or a strong interest in leveraging AI tooling to optimize workflows and support an AI-first engineering culture.

Benefits: GovTech offers a total rewards approach, providing a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks, including leave benefits, employee wellness programs, and flexible work arrangements.

## Skills

### Required
- software development
- ICT project management
- technical programme management
- delivery management
- Agile
- Scrum
- cloud delivery
- cybersecurity
- compliance
- large-scale complex systems
- stakeholder management
- communication

### Nice to have
- AI tooling
- automated workflows
- AI-first engineering culture

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