[What the role is]
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, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.
Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!
Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
[What you will be working on]
Digital Economy Products (DEP) is a cluster of programs within GovTech run like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector, especially related to the digital economy area. Some of the problem spaces we are working on include healthcare, workforce transformation, trade/industry/finance, national development, and AI-driven workplace productivity solutions.
As a Senior Engineering Manager in DEP, you will be responsible for delivering value of a programme through multiple agile product teams. You will ensure solid technical direction, drive the design, implementation & delivery. As a leader of your organisation, you will be making your teams effective, setting standards and creating growth culture.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Collaborating with your respective Product and UX leaders in creating and driving a solid, coherent product vision and strategy, as well as setting and measuring objectives for the products in your portfolio, creating and maintaining long-term technical plans and roadmaps for your products
- Defining your team’s engineering strategy, and directions that align with the organization’s overall vision and goals
- Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritise and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently in order to deliver good value to the people of Singapore
- Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good
- Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact
- Identify and grow leaders, measurement of success, build and transform team structures in order to make your team effective
- Set standards, manage performance, professional growth of people within your organisation, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed
- Identify the resourcing needs and drive internal and external hiring for your organisation and beyond
[What we are looking for]
- Experience and good track record of running medium to large teams (15+) with multiple tracks of execution, managing managers
- Experience with solving complex technical issues, e.g. high bar of security requirements, high-availability software systems, co-existence of new and legacy systems, etc.
- Experience in modern full-stack technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
- Proven ability of providing technical leadership to large teams, track record of driving team effectiveness and products through data.
- Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in thecraftsmanship aspect of software engineering
- Passion towards working for public good with interest
- The ability to set meaningful objectives and guide a team to achieve them together
- 2+ years experience of coaching engineers and managers, helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers
- Ability to deal with difficult people situations (within the team or outside)
What we offer you:
You will be leading the development of digital products supporting critical functions of the government and society of Singapore.
GovTech is an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.
We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.
Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.
Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech.