Engineering Manager, Managed Agencies (MSF)

GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY AGENCY; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency focusing on digital transformation in Singapore seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team addressing important public sector challenges. This role involves defining engineering strategies, managing roadmaps, and mentoring developers. Ideal candidates will have experience in high-availability software systems, modern web technologies like Next.js and React.js, and a passion for engineering excellence and public good. Join us to make an impact in the Smart Nation initiative.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing high-availability software systems.
• Experience with modern full-stack web technologies.
• Strong soft skills for technical leadership.
• Passion for engineering excellence and public good.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring developers.

Responsibilities

• Define team engineering vision and strategies.
• Manage product roadmaps with stakeholders.
• Create long-term technical plans and roadmaps.
• Engage and mentor engineers for performance growth.
• Develop quality and security strategies.
• Identify engineering initiatives for public good.
• Establish engineering culture practices.
• Assist in recruitment of senior developers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software craftsmanship

Full-stack web application technologies

Next.js

React.js

Java/TypeScript

Coaching developers

Public good focus

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. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today! Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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. Update the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Work 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 maximize our impact on the public good through developing and evolving the enterprise architecture.
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Have 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 with interest.
• 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) 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.