Data Scientist, Skills Intelligence & Policy Insights

Skills and Workforce Development Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SSG) invites a Data Scientist to join the National Jobs-Skills Data Office. You will transform complex data into actionable insights, building ML and graph models to support Singapore's skills intelligence and workforce planning.

You'll design experiments, deploy analytical solutions, and collaborate with policy, product, and data teams to deliver data-informed decisions across government partners. Strong Python/SQL skills and NLP experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Background in data science, statistics, machine learning, or related quantitative disciplines.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis, modeling, and data pipeline development.
• Experience with unstructured data processing, particularly text using natural language processing (NLP).
• Proven track record in developing, evaluating, and validating statistical or machine learning models using appropriate validation approaches and performance metrics.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools and techniques for presenting complex analytical insights to diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of labour market, workforce, or skills data and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy advanced analytical models to extract deeper insights from jobs, skills, and tasks data, applying statistical and machine learning techniques including feature engineering, model selection, and validation using appropriate performance metrics.
• Design and build scalable data infrastructure by creating modular, reusable data pipelines and prototyping advanced analytics solutions that operationalize insights to support evolving stakeholder needs across various partnership levels.
• Translate complex data signals into strategic insights through close collaboration with product and policy teams, ensuring analytical outputs meaningfully inform workforce and industry planning decisions that align with national skills development objectives.
• Drive continuous analytical improvement by evaluating and enhancing existing methodologies, incorporating new data sources, external datasets, and robust model validation frameworks to strengthen the analytical foundation.
• Lead analytical partnerships and collaborations by scoping and supporting projects with internal divisions and external partners, translating stakeholder requirements into well-defined data science problem statements and delivering comprehensive analytical solutions.
• Contribute to national jobs-skills data assets including the development of structured taxonomies, entity extraction pipelines, and knowledge graph representations that support Singapore's skills intelligence ecosystem.
• Champion research-backed innovation by staying current with emerging analytical techniques, tools, and methodologies, ensuring SIPD maintains cutting-edge capabilities in workforce analytics and skills intelligence.

Skills

Python

SQL

NLP

Data visualization

Statistics

Machine learning

Labour market data

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Job description

Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SSG) invites a Data Scientist to join the National Jobs-Skills Data Office. You will transform complex data into actionable insights, building ML and graph models to support Singapore's skills intelligence and workforce planning.

You'll design experiments, deploy analytical solutions, and collaborate with policy, product, and data teams to deliver data-informed decisions across government partners. Strong Python/SQL skills and NLP experience are essential.