Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness, Software Engineering Practice
Principal-level individual contributor leading a new Engineering Effectiveness Measurement pillar within GovTech's Software Engineering Practice: measuring developer experience, engineering capability and delivery outcomes across Singapore's public sector using frameworks like DORA/SPACE, surveys, qualitative research, analytics and dashboards, and prototyping tools where needed.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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, such as interviews, surveys and research synthesis
- Thoughtful understanding of engineering measurement frameworks such as DORA and SPACE, including their limitations
- Sound judgement about privacy, incentives and the unintended consequences of measurement
- Ability to turn incomplete or contested evidence into a clear narrative while being transparent about uncertainty
- Experience operating as a Principal-level individual contributor, setting technical direction and influencing without direct authority
- Record of working across organisational boundaries and building shared ownership with engineering, platform, data and leadership teams
- Focus on outcomes — evidence must improve a decision or lead to a useful change
Nice to have
- Establishing or leading a developer experience, productivity or engineering effectiveness function
- Developing and rolling out an engineering maturity framework across multiple teams or organisations
- Designing and analysing large-scale developer surveys or other structured research programmes
- Building maturity models or scorecards using data from internal developer platforms, software catalogues or tools such as Backstage
- Running structured interviews or field research with engineering teams
- Evaluating the effects of developer tools, AI-assisted engineering or changes to software delivery practices
- Building analytics products, research pipelines or lightweight internal tools
- Turning ambiguous questions into defensible and useful findings
- Working across a large or federated engineering organisation
Full 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, 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 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.
The Practice is organised around a small number of pillars, each led by a Principal Engineer. This role leads 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.
You will align existing data, analytics and research capabilities, identify important gaps, and extend them where needed. You will set the pillar’s direction and priorities, provide technical leadership to engineers contributing to its work, and influence senior leaders across organisational boundaries.
Our north star is to:
Give engineering leaders a trustworthy view of how effectively their teams can deliver, where the most important constraints lie, and which changes are most likely to help.
In your first 12 months, you will establish a trusted baseline of engineering effectiveness measurement, roll out an engineering maturity framework across GovTech and partner agencies, and help engineering leaders act on the most important constraints affecting their teams.
As the tech lead for Engineering Effectiveness Measurement pillar, you will: