Data Scientist, Forward‑Deployed Team for Public Good

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Leave benefits

Wellness programmes

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Data Scientist to identify opportunities for data exploitation through discussions with business stakeholders and to scope data science projects with clear deliverables. You will perform data cleaning, feature engineering, and build models to impact business use cases, delivering sound insights and artefacts.

The role emphasises translating results into actionable recommendations, communicating data stories, and may involve dashboards and real-time visualisations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or related disciplines.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in data science and/or public sector.
• Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems.
• Proficient in scripting for data preparation and analysis with modern tools and methodologies.
• Proficient in cleaning and normalising data to ensure high quality for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into data science projects.
• Perform data cleaning, pre-processing, feature engineering, and build models to address use cases.
• Present findings and recommendations, prioritising refinements with stakeholders while tracking timelines.
• Communicate data insights and business impact with clear narratives and visuals for decision makers.
• Design dashboards and interactive visualisations for data exploration and storytelling when appropriate.
• Operationalise use cases using MLOps platforms to deploy and monitor models.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Data visualization

ML modeling

Python scripting

Data cleaning

Statistical methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science or related

Tools

Python

SQL

Pandas

scikit-learn

Spark

MLOps

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Data Scientist to identify opportunities for data exploitation through discussions with business stakeholders and to scope data science projects with clear deliverables. You will perform data cleaning, feature engineering, and build models to impact business use cases, delivering sound insights and artefacts.

The role emphasises translating results into actionable recommendations, communicating data stories, and may involve dashboards and real-time visualisations.