Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed Team (SWDA)

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

The Government Technology 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. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions.

GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

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

As a Data Scientist, you will be identifying opportunities for data exploitation through in-depth conversations with business stakeholders. You will scope out data science projects/products with clear deliverables that are actionable and impactful and execute them in close iteration with the stakeholders.

This role requires an individual with strong data analysis, problem solving, and communication skills, who can engage stakeholders on their business use cases, identify appropriate data science techniques in each case, and deliver sound solutions that seek to influence actionable outcomes.

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand their business challenges, sharpen the business use cases and translate them into data science projects/products.
• Perform data cleaning, pre-processing, feature engineering, and build data science models/products to address the use case.
• Present findings, solicit feedback and prioritise refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline.
• Communicate the data insights and business impact of the projects/products in a clear and compelling narrative, supported with impactful visuals, to influence key decision makers.
• Depending on the use case, design of dashboards and interactive visualisations as tools for data exploration and storytelling may be expected.
• Depending on the use case, operationalise the use case by using existing MLOps platforms to deploy and monitor the machine learning models.
• Opportunities to be deployed to another government agency as the core data science team for a sustained period of 2-3 years, to build up data science capabilities at the agency. This will involve formulating and implementing strategies to build strong pipeline of impactful projects/products at the agency, and executing these projects or deploying the products into production systems.

What we are looking for

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Quantitative Social Science, or related disciplines. We will also factor in relevant certifications (e.g., Coursera).
• At least 2 years of relevant experience, in data science and/or public sector.
• Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems, and identifying appropriate data sources to tackle these problems.
• Proficient in writing scripts for data preparation and analysis, using modern analysis tools & programming methodologies.
• Proficient cleaning, imputing and correcting anomalies in the collected structured or unstructured data to ensure a high standard of quality in data sets to be used in the analysis work.
• Proficient in exploring and analysing datasets, applying probability and statistical methodologies and techniques to discover insights from the data.
• Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make predictions.
• Proficient in design principles and use of visualisations to best convey the intended information.
• Capable of developing data visualisation from standalone graphs and charts on to highly customised tools and apps while tightly integrated to the data systems for real time visualisation of information.
• Capable of translating results from analysis work into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Capable of communicating results and business impact from analysis work in a coherent data story for stakeholders.
• Have passion for improving public service and deliver public good using analytics and data.

Preferred requirements

• Experience in model deployment and MLOps
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Experience in agile project management
• Experience in developing capability in others

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 programmes.

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