Engineering Manager - Ministry of Social & Family Development

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.

About Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF)

The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) is Singapore's lead ministry for social and family policies, working to build a caring and inclusive society where every individual and family can thrive.

We deliver essential services through our network of Family Service Centres, Social Service Offices, and industry partners, supporting vulnerable populations across all life stages. Our work encompasses family services, early childhood, social assistance, disability support, mental health initiatives, and community development programmes.

We are actively expanding our team to drive impact for our key initiatives including but not limited to:

• Case Central for integrated case management for Social Service Sector
• ComLink+ for enhanced community support programme
• Social Service Coordination Centre for Whole-of-Govt insights
• Early Childhood programmes that give our youngest citizens the best start in life
• Sectors Futures Technology to look ahead on sectoral digitalisation and transformation efforts
• These innovative platforms represent our commitment to leveraging technology and coordinated approaches to better serve Singaporeans.

Join our dedicated team of professionals and help make a meaningful difference in the lives of Singaporeans as we work together to nurture strong families and build resilient communities.

[What you will be working on]

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to work on technically challenging problems in an environment running like a modern product company, solving important underserved problems in the public sector. The problems we work on include digital services that support Singaporeans on their parenthood journey.

• Defining your team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organisation's overall vision and goals
• Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritise and manage roadmaps for delivering product vision incrementally and efficiently
• Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed, updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product and infrastructure requirements
• Regularly engaging with engineers in conversations about their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed
• Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team
• Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximise impact on the public good through developing and evolving the enterprise architecture
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximise engineering effectiveness and impact
• Establishing and driving the MSF Engineering Landscape — building engineering visibility and standards from the ground up across a portfolio of 30+ systems and multiple vendors, including Infrastructure-as-Code (creation, patching, remediation), CI/CD (build, test, deploy), and compliance posture (audits, VAPT, risk management), using leading and lagging metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency to drive measurable improvement across teams and vendors
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires

[What we are looking for]

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale
• Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred
• Strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just technical ability
• Passion for engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering
• The ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together
• 2+ years of experience coaching developers, helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers
• Comfort operating in an environment where engineering maturity is being built, not inherited — able to objectively assess the current state across teams and vendors, identify gaps, and create a structured path to improvement
• Passion for working in the public interest

This role will start off on a 2 year contract. 

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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