Assistant Director, Engineering Manager, Skills and Workforce Development

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Diversity & inclusion programs

Wellness programs

Total rewards approach

Job summary

GovTech in Singapore is seeking a Senior Technical Lead and Engineering Manager for SWDA to spearhead architectural and organizational excellence. You will lead agile teams, set technical direction, and drive delivery of robust, scalable digital solutions for public good.

Responsibilities include defining strategy, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product and UX to deliver measurable value while advancing security, quality, and performance standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership.
• Deep experience in system design and modern architecture.
• Experience with cloud-native, microservices, CI/CD and DevOps.
• Strong engineering practices, security mindset and operational excellence.
• Ability to lead large teams (10+), set strategy and drive delivery for public-good projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile teams to build meaningful products empowering citizens and public services.
• Define engineering strategy and align roadmaps with organizational goals.
• Mentor engineers, drive architectural reviews and ensure robust system designs.
• Set high standards for code quality, testing, security-by-design and performance.
• Grow leaders, manage performance, and drive hiring to meet resourcing needs.
• Collaborate with product and UX leaders to deliver value for Singaporeans.

Skills

System design

Leadership

Full‑stack

Next.js/React

Java/Kotlin/TypeScript

Cloud-native

CI/CD/DevOps

Tools

Next.js

React

Java

Kotlin

TypeScript

CI/CD

DevOps

Job 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.

AtGovTech, 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 aboutGovTechat tech.gov.sg.

What you will be working on

As a strong Technical Lead and Engineering Manager in SWDA you will build the digital foundation of the next Singapore. You will lead agile teams in creating meaningful products that empower Singaporeans to realize their career ambitions and lifelong learning goals, directly fostering a competitive and inclusive nation. You will provide deep architectural and technical leadership while driving team growth, cultural standards, and delivery excellence. As a leader, you will make your teams effective, set high engineering standards, and foster a growth-oriented culture that supports the development of robust and scalable digital solutions.

Your responsibilities

• 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 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
• Providing hands‑on technical guidance, architectural oversight, and rigorous design reviews to ensure robust and scalable system architectures
• Setting and upholding high engineering standards across the lifecycle, including code quality, comprehensive testing, security-by-design, and operational excellence
• Mentoring and technical coaching of engineers to elevate the team & engineering craft and foster a culture of continuous learning
• 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

• A strong technical background with deep experience in system design and modern architecture, combined with a proven track record of running medium to large teams (10+) with multiple tracks of execution
• 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 NextJs/React and Java/Kotlin/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.
• Strong Engineering practices, Quality and Security mindset.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; Evolutionary architecture, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering, Operational excellence.
• Passion towards working for public good with interest
• Strong technical foundation with experience in modern architectures (e.g.
• cloud‑native, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps
• The ability to set objectives and execute with the team to achieve them together
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Ability to navigate challenging projects, people and situations.

What we offer you:

GovTechis anequal opportunityemployer 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 ofperks. 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