Service Designer- Data Programme
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.
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[What you will be working on]
The mission of GovTech's Data Programme is to deliver fit-for-purpose data assets and services for policy making, service delivery and operations across Whole of Government. Our programme creates value through enablement - reducing friction for agencies so they can move faster and make better decisions in their work with existing government datasets.
You will contribute to the design and development of one or more of our four strategic initiatives:
1. Standardised Data Platform
2. Unified Frontend / DataHive
3. Unified Serving Backbone
4. Observability & Governance Infrastructure
About the Role
We are looking for a Service Designer to look across all touchpoints within the department and map out how they interlink with one another. A key part of this role is piecing together fragmented, disconnected journeys and helping them dovetail into one coherent system or programme - so that agencies experience our data services as a single, joined-up whole rather than a set of disparate tools and processes.
Responsibilities
See the Whole System: Map the full landscape of touchpoints across the four strategic initiatives - surfacing how services, teams, and tools interconnect (or fail to) from the user's point of view.
Diagnose Fragmentation: Identify gaps, overlaps, redundancies, and hand-off points between initiatives where journeys break down or feel disjointed to agencies and end-users.
Design the Connective Tissue: Define how fragmented journeys can dovetail into one coherent, unified programme experience - establishing the service architecture and shared patterns that hold the four initiatives together as a single system.
Produce Systems-Level Artefacts: Create service blueprints, ecosystem maps, journey maps, and touchpoint inventories that give the programme a shared, visual understanding of how the whole service functions end-to-end.
Translate Complexity into Clarity: Distil complex, technical, and cross-team workflows into artefacts.
Collaborate & Influence: Partner closely with product designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers across all four pillars to socialise the systems view, resolve conflicting journey designs, and align teams around a single coherent programme narrative.
What it is like working here
We build products that serve a variety of agency users, who use them to solve highly meaningful problems pertinent to our society, from transportation, to education, to healthcare. The public sector is full of opportunities where even the simplest software can have a big impact on people’s lives. We are here to improve how we live as a society through what we can offer as a government.
Rapid Prototyping - Instead of spending too much time debating ideas we prefer testing them. This identifies potential problems quickly, and more importantly, conveys what is possible to others easily.
Reliable Productisation - To scale an idea, a prototype or a Minimum Viable Product to a software product, we scrutinize and commit to its usability, reliability, scalability and maintainability.
Ownership - In addition to design responsibilities, this means having ideas on how things should be done and taking responsibility for seeing them through. Building something that you believe in is the best way to build something good.
Continuous Learning - Working on new ideas often means not fully understanding what you are working on. Taking time to learn new frameworks, technologies, and even different ways of working is not just encouraged but essential.
What we are looking for
5+ years of professional experience in Service Design.
A strong portfolio demonstrating that shows work at the programme or ecosystem level - not just individual product or feature design.
Demonstrated experience mapping complex, multi-stakeholder systems - service blueprints, ecosystem maps, journey maps that span multiple teams, products, or organisations - and using them to drive alignment.
Comfort operating at a level above individual product delivery - able to set direction and shared patterns for other designers to execute against, rather than owning end-to-end delivery personally.
Experience working with technical, data-heavy, or infrastructure-oriented products is a strong plus.
Take the initiative to make things happen
Desire to learn, adapt and grow in the UX design field
What We Offer:
- Collaborative and creative work environment
- Competitive salary and benefits package, including opportunities for professional growth and development
- Work environment that is fully supportive of self-improvement and personal/professional development
GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe it is key to innovation.
Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks.
We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust you to manage your time to deliver your best.
Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.
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