Assistant Director, Engineering Manager, Singpass

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. 

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.

[What you will be working on]

The Singpass team builds Singapore’s digital identity system. This includes various personal authentication protocols, data sharing tools, and corporate identity systems through Corppass. The team’s mission is to provide a world-class, and secure national digital identity for seamless everyday experiences.

The Data Platform team builds and operates the foundational data capabilities that power Singpass products and services. The platform enables secure, reliable, and scalable data ingestion, processing, governance, and analytics, supporting operational intelligence, fraud detection, real-time decision-making, and data-driven product innovation. 

As an Engineering Manager at GovTech, you will:

Aim: Set Direction

• Lead design and architecture reviews to ensure your team consistently delivers scalable, secure solutions.
• Contribute to setting the technical direction for your team in collaboration with Product, Design and other stakeholders,ensuring that solutions align with the organisation’s quality, security, and scalability standards. Collaborate with Product and UX partners to shape the squad’s technical and delivery goals
• Balance new feature delivery with technical sustainability, maintainability, and risk mitigation. 
• Bring strong technical judgment - helping engineers navigate design and architecture trade-offs in alignment with long-term goals
• Drive delivery excellence and system reliability by leveraging operational metrics, incident trends, and DataOps signals (e.g. data freshness, schema drift) to inform technical decisions and prioritise engineering improvements. Use metrics (e.g., delivery velocity, incident trends, performance) to guide decisions and improve flow

Assemble: Build and Support the Team

• Build a high-performing, lean team with the right mix of skills, experience, and growth potential
• Cultivate a culture of ownership by creating opportunities for engineers to tackle meaningful challenges, lead initiatives, and drive outcomes. Coach and develop your engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and career growth planning
• Build a high-trust, inclusive team culture where feedback is valued and learning is continuous
• Drive performance management with fairness, transparency, and context
• Foster a high-performing, psychologically safe engineering culture through regular 1:1 coaching conversations, timely and actionable feedback, and active support for individual growth and career development. Foster a high-performing, psychologically safe engineering culture through regular coaching conversations, timely and actionable feedback, and active support for individual growth and career development. 
• Build a productive engineering environment by ensuring teams have the right resources, clear operating norms, effective team structures, and the support needed to deliver their best work. 

Achieve: Deliver Outcomes Sustainably

• Drive technical excellence across Singpass by setting high standards for system design, code quality, and software engineering practices, while mentoring engineers to consistently deliver high-quality solutions. Ensure the team ships high-quality software predictably, and improves over time
• Partner with team to drive technical decision-making and architecture reviews, ensuring scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. Support technical decision-making and architecture reviews, with support from team.
• Monitor delivery health, reliability, and tech debt - and address root causes, not just symptoms
• Improve Developer Experience (DevX) and reduce friction through better tools, processes, or team rituals

[What we're looking for] 

You may be a great fit if:

• Able to apply deep expertise in event-driven architectures by designing and operating scalable event-driven systems and stream processing solutions, modelling complex event flows to enable fraud detection, product insights, business intelligence, and real-time capabilities such as feature stores.
• You have the ability to provide strong technical leadership and mentorship by offering clear technical guidance, promoting engineering best practices, and empowering engineers through ownership, autonomy, and effective delegation. You are a technically credible leader - able to support architecture discussions, unblock delivery, and earn the trust of your team
• You are able to drive alignment across engineering, product, and relevant stakeholders through clear communication, strategic influence, and collaborative decision-making.
• You stay close to the technical details - whether through architecture reviews, design docs, code reviews, or hands-on support when needed
• You care deeply about your team's growth, wellbeing, and performance - and know how to coach engineers toward excellence
• You bring clarity-helping teams prioritise, plan, and focus in a complex environment
• You believe in developer experience and delivery flow as key levers for system health and impact
• You understand how software systems and engineering practices scale - and can guide improvements across architecture, testing, observability, or infrastructure
• You believe in shared success - and collaborate openly across functions, domains, and agencies
• You take ownership of outcomes - and hold the team to a high standard of quality, security, and delivery.

We're especially excited by EMs who:

• Bring strong technical judgment and can help engineers navigate architectural trade-offs
• Have grown engineers from junior to senior through mentorship,

  opportunity, and feedback

• Have improved delivery flow through data-driven improvements in velocity or predictability
• Understand the link between engineering culture, equity, and system health
• Embrace modern governance, security, and platform practices as part of engineering leadership

What we offer you:  

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.  

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.  

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.   

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers. Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech