Senior / Systems Engineer, Cyber-Physical Strategy (Smart City Technology Division)

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. 

[What you will be working on]  

We are seeking a Senior / Systems Engineer, Cyber-Physical Strategy to orchestrate the lifecycle of our complex systems from initial concept exploration through deployment and retirement. You will apply formal systems engineering methodologies to product management. 

You will be responsible for translating business strategy and stakeholder needs into rigorously defined system architectures, ensuring the system-of-interest delivers optimal mission and market value. You will serve as the primary technical interface bridging the gap between business stakeholders, customers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Product & Technical Backlog Governance:  Own, prioritize, and groom the product backlog alongside the technical systems engineering roadmap. Balance business-driven feature velocity with systemic technical debt and architectural runway. 

• System Requirements Definition:  Establish and maintain ownership of the  System Requirements Specification (SyRS). Deconstruct high-level product capabilities into clear, verifiable, and traceable technical requirements. 

• End-to-End Lifecycle Ownership:  Drive the system lifecycle from initial concept through deployment, actively bridging the gap between design engineering and live operations to ensure long-term system reliability, maintainability, and scalability. 

• Operational Requirements & Feedback Integration:  Define, track, and verify operational requirements (e.g., uptime, monitoring, and field performance metrics) and systematically translate live operational feedback into concrete design updates for the product backlog. 

• System-Level Verification & Validation (V&V):  Define the V&V strategy. Author acceptance criteria, oversee system integration, and lead formal validation and  User Acceptance Testing (UAT)  to guarantee the final system-of-interest satisfies both stakeholder requirements and operational intent. 

• Systems Thinking & Modeling: Drive end-to-end system architecture design and provide technical oversight to ensure development teams execute accordingly

• Technical Risk & Decision Management:  Implement rigorous decision analysis and trade studies to optimize systemic trade-offs (e.g., cost, schedule, performance, reliability, and manufacturability). Proactively identify, track, and mitigate technical, schedule, and market risks. 

• Assist Customers on Stakeholders Engagement and Contractors:  Manage customer’s stakeholder requirements and expectations as well as contractors’ service level and performance.

[What we are looking for]

Technical Skills & Experience Required

• Experience: >10 years of experience navigating complex hardware/software lifecycles, operating at the intersection of Systems Engineering and Technical Product Management. 

• Requirements Engineering & Traceability:  Mastery of formal requirements engineering principles, including the management of bidirectional traceability matrices using enterprise tools (e.g. Jira/Confluence). 

• End-to-End System Architecture & Topology Design: Proven experience designing complex, hybrid system architectures that bridge physical components/edge nodes with distributed cloud pipelines, ensuring optimal data flow, resource allocation, and latency management across the entire ecosystem.

• Agile/SE Lifecycle Integration:  Deep understanding of how to execute systems engineering processes within modern execution frameworks like  Agile, Scrum, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). 

Good to Have  

• Domain Expertise: Direct experience engineering smart city verticals (e.g., smart mobility, smart grid, IoT, or connected building automation).

• INCOSE Certification:  Active  ASEP or CSEP  (Associate/Certified Systems Engineering Professional) designation is highly preferred. 

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. 

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