Engineering Manager, Data & AI (National Environment Agency)

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

At National Environment Agency (NEA), we are always on the lookout for high performing individuals who share our aspiration of making Singapore one of the world’s best living environments.

• As an Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for technical direction and processes in one (or more) teams. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your team.

Your responsibilities will include

• Defining your team’s engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization’s overall vision and goals.

• Staying on top of industry development, and highly well versed in how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.

• Excellent knowledge of implementing systems using Bespoke, COTS, SaaS solutions across the enterprise. Experience with cloud technologies and IT transformation programs.

• Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.

• Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed. Update the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.

• Work regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed.

• Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team.

• 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.