Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time, Secure Data Platform

Tech; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Life at GovTech

Job summary

GovTech, Singapore's Government Technology Agency, seeks a Senior Data Engineer for the Singpass Data Platform team. You will design and operate scalable data systems that handle real-time and batch workloads, collaborating across data, software, cybersecurity, and product teams.

You will build observability, ensure data quality and security, and drive engineering best practices. This role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement within a national digital identity ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in building production-grade distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures and stream-processing systems.
• Understanding of ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, observability and data lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable data platforms and distributed data systems for real-time and batch workloads.
• Develop robust data ingestion and processing pipelines with data quality, freshness, availability and integrity guarantees.
• Mentor engineers and lead architecture discussions to balance scalability, security and performance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Stream processing

Data ingestion

Data quality

Observability

Security

Debugging

Architecture discussions

Technical leadership

Tools

Kafka

Cloud data platforms

Data lakes/warehouses

Job description

GovTech, Singapore's Government Technology Agency, seeks a Senior Data Engineer for the Singpass Data Platform team. You will design and operate scalable data systems that handle real-time and batch workloads, collaborating across data, software, cybersecurity, and product teams.

You will build observability, ensure data quality and security, and drive engineering best practices. This role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement within a national digital identity ecosystem.