Senior Data Engineer - Public Sector Data Platforms

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

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Employee wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

GovTech is hiring a Data Engineer to support NEA's environmental protection and incident response mission in Singapore. You will design data foundations powering environmental intelligence and incident response, turning fragmented data into timely, trusted information for faster decisions.

You will work in a multidisciplinary product team, building data platforms and analytics capabilities that enable scalable data pipelines, dashboards and AI-enabled use cases for public services.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience in Data or Software Engineering.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines.
• Able to work with product managers, engineers and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs to integrate data sources.
• Build reliable data ingestion capabilities for internal and external data.
• Develop data integration services for timely data exchange across systems.
• Implement robust error handling, retries and observability for reliability.
• Ensure data quality, traceability and lineage across datasets.
• Build and maintain batch and near real-time data pipelines.
• Design scalable data models for investigations, reporting and analytics.
• Transform fragmented data into trusted, consumable data products.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production data issues.
• Develop curated datasets for dashboards and reporting.
• Collaborate with product managers and NEA stakeholders on data products.
• Enable self-service analytics with governed data assets.
• Support advanced analytics, modelling and AI-enabled use cases.
• Identify opportunities to improve data accessibility and decision-making.
• Implement CI/CD and promote engineering best practices.
• Maintain platform monitoring and observability dashboards.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Databricks

Apache Spark

APIs

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

IBM MQ

Azure Event Hubs

Apache Kafka

Job description

GovTech is hiring a Data Engineer to support NEA's environmental protection and incident response mission in Singapore. You will design data foundations powering environmental intelligence and incident response, turning fragmented data into timely, trusted information for faster decisions.

You will work in a multidisciplinary product team, building data platforms and analytics capabilities that enable scalable data pipelines, dashboards and AI-enabled use cases for public services.