Engineering Manager, Managed Agencies (MSF)

Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental technology agency in Singapore seeks an Engineering Manager to lead technical direction for several teams. This role involves defining engineering vision, managing product roadmaps, and mentoring a diverse engineering team towards impactful public service projects. The ideal candidate has experience in high-availability applications, modern web technologies, and a passion for engineering excellence. Competitive benefits and a commitment to public good are core to this role.

Qualifications

• Experience with large, high-availability software systems.
• Strong technical leadership with soft skills.
• 2+ years of coaching experience for developers.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering vision and strategy for teams.
• Manage roadmaps in partnership with stakeholders.
• Create technical plans and roadmaps for teams.
• Engage with engineers for performance and growth.
• Establish quality, reliability, and security strategies.

Skills

Full-stack web application technologies

Next.js/React.js

Java/TypeScript

Technical leadership

Engineering excellence

Coaching developers

Job description

Engineering Manager (MSF)

Engineering Manager for MSF Product Devt Office. 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. Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

What you will be working on

Digital transformation within the public sector is at the heart of what GovTech does. We harness the best information‑communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore. GovTech is seeking an engineering manager to work on technically challenging problems in an environment running like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector. Some of the problems are related to different programs including healthcare, manpower transformation, trade facilitation, national development, HR and Finance products.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical direction and processes in one (or more) teams. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & practices across Engineering teams in MSF and be accountable for the Enterprise Architecture for MSF.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining your team’s engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization’s overall vision and goals.
• Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
• Creating a long‑term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed, and updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Working regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed.
• Working with cross‑functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team.
• Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximise our impact on the public good through developing and evolving the enterprise architecture.
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.

What we are looking for

• Experience working on reasonably large, high‑availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Experience in modern full‑stack web application technologies; experience in modern front‑end engineering like Next.js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
• A strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
• Passion towards working for public good.
• The ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together.
• 2+ years of experience coaching developers; helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers.

About Government Technology Agency (GovTech). 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. 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.