Software Engineer, Data and Artificial Intelligence Platforms (DAIP)

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.

Who we are
The mission of GovTech's Data and Artificial Intelligence Platforms team is to deliver high-quality reusable Data and AI assets and services for policy making, service delivery and operations across WOG.

What the products are
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Data and Artificial Intelligence Platforms (DAIP) team.The existing Government Data Architecture (GDA), launched in 2019, laid the groundwork for WOG data sharing via TCs, SSOTs and central platforms. As the data technology landscape is rapidly evolving and data/system requirements are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, to better support agencies, the next phase of GDA (i.e. GDA 2.0) aims to consolidate, streamline, and elevate the products and initiatives within the WOG data landscape – this includes the development of the following products.

• DataHive as the next-gen WOG Data Discovery & Request Platform to cater to a wider range of WOG requirements and use cases. DataHive has been further enhanced to support both data requestors and providers as follows. 1) Data requestors/consumers will experience a streamlined data search and request process, with options to access data via curated APIs and through an analytics workbench. 2) Data providers can expect more flexibility and control in the management of datasets on the platform itself.
• Data products that compute and serve derived data for ops and service delivery for multiple agencies. By adopting the “Build Once, Use Many Times” approach for such data products, the intent is to achieve the benefit of cost-savings, better data quality and improving time-to-market for new services.
• Fraud Detection Platform (FDP). FDP is a central platform for Grant Fraud Insights. It draws data from TC Business & Individual, combines it as a graph and generates insights on businesses and individuals for government grant, procurement and finance due diligence checks and audits

What you will be working on

As a software engineer, you will:

• Build prototypes to demonstrate technology opportunities
• Design system architectures
• Write production quality code, and
• Manage deployments to cloud and (occasionally) on-premise infrastructure
• Learn and share knowledge in a multi-disciplinary team.

Additionally, more senior engineers will be expected to:

• Establish best practices
• Share your expertise and mentor other engineers
• Help with recruiting.

You are not just here to write code, but also to figure out what we should be building and how we should build it.

Your job will be to bring expertise and capability to the public sector. Sometimes this means coding new systems from scratch. Other times this means using the best solutions the community has to offer. We use cloud services, open source software, and commodity hardware as far as possible. Knowing what to build and what to reuse lets us avoid wasting time on solved problems and focus on delivering actual value.

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