Engineering Manager, Apps Product (DSP)

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] 

Digital transformation within the public sector is at the heart of what GovTech does. We harness the best info communications technologies to make a difference to the everyday lives of people in Singapore ( about GovTech). As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical direction and engineering execution for one (or more) teams. You will drive the design, implementation, and delivery of product capabilities owned by your team, while building a healthy engineering system that ships reliably and improves over time. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining your teamʼs engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organisationʼs overall vision
  and goals.
• Partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional counterparts (e.g., Product, Design, QA, Security) to prioritise
  and manage roadmaps, delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
• Creating and maintaining a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the team; updating it regularly to meet future
  product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Staying close to technical details through architecture reviews, design discussions, and code/review practices,
  bringing sound technical judgment to guide trade-offs.
• Ensuring the team ships high-quality software predictably and sustainably; improving delivery flow, developer
  experience DevX, and engineering effectiveness.
• Building reliability and security into the teamʼs approach: observability, incident response, postmortems, and
  preventative improvements.
• Coaching and developing engineers through 11s, feedback, performance conversations, and career growth
  planning.
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering
  effectiveness and impact.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior h