Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Environmental Pipelines

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a data-focused software engineer to design and build scalable data platforms for environmental and public sector data. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers and analysts to deploy end-to-end ingestion, processing and analytics capabilities.

The role emphasizes Python/SQL development, ETL pipelines, APIs, data integration, near real-time processing and strong observability, supporting mission-critical public sector systems and cloud-native

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs for data integration.
• Develop data ingestion capabilities for internal and external sources.
• Ensure data quality, traceability and lineage across datasets.
• Build batch and near real-time data pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, observability and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and NEA stakeholders.
• Monitor production data issues and maintain platform health.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Data warehousing

Data lake

Databricks

Apache Spark

APIs

Real-time processing

Kafka

CI/CD

Git

DevOps

Monitoring

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

IBM MQ

Azure Event Hubs

Apache Kafka

APIs

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a data-focused software engineer to design and build scalable data platforms for environmental and public sector data. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers and analysts to deploy end-to-end ingestion, processing and analytics capabilities.

The role emphasizes Python/SQL development, ETL pipelines, APIs, data integration, near real-time processing and strong observability, supporting mission-critical public sector systems and cloud-native