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What the role is

GovTech builds digital products for the Singapore Government. We are hiring a Data Engineer to support NEA's environmental protection and incident response mission.

Environmental pollution incidents can affect public health, disrupt operations, and require rapid coordination across multiple teams. During investigations, officers often need to draw upon data from environmental sensors, weather systems, public feedback, operational systems and geospatial sources to determine what happened, where to investigate, and what actions should be taken.

As a Data Engineer, you will design and build the data foundations that power environmental intelligence, operational decision-making and incident response capabilities. Your work will help transform fragmented environmental data into trusted, timely and actionable information that enables officers to respond faster and make better decisions during environmental incidents.

This is a mission-driven role where your engineering work directly supports environmental protection and public service outcomes.

What You Will Be Working On

You will be part of a multidisciplinary product team building:

Environmental Incident Response Platforms

Platforms that help officers build a common operational picture by bringing together environmental, operational and public feedback data to support faster investigations and decision-making during environmental incidents.

Environmental Monitoring & Intelligence

Capabilities that integrate environmental monitoring systems, sensor networks, weather information, public feedback and operational datasets into trusted and actionable information for officers, analysts and management.

Environmental Intelligence & Data Products

Data products that transform fragmented data into trusted, decision-ready insights for operational response, reporting, advanced analytics and future AI-enabled use cases.

What You'll Do

A) Systems & Data Integration

Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs to integrate environmental monitoring systems, sensor networks, public feedback platforms and operational systems
Build reliable data ingestion capabilities for internal and external data sources
Develop data integration services that support the timely exchange of environmental and operational data across multiple systems
Implement robust error handling, retry mechanisms and observability practices to ensure operational reliability
Ensure data quality, traceability and lineage across critical environmental datasets

B) Data Platform & Engineering

Build and maintain batch and near real-time data pipelines that process environmental, operational and public feedback data
Design scalable data models that support incident investigations, operational reporting and analytics use cases
Transform fragmented datasets into trusted, consumable and decision-ready data products
Optimise pipeline performance, reliability and scalability to support mission-critical operations
Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production data issues to maintain platform health

C) Analytics & Intelligence Enablement

Develop curated datasets that support operational dashboards, investigative workflows and management reporting
Partner with Product Managers, engineers, analysts and NEA stakeholders to translate business needs into data products
Enable self-service analytics through discoverable, well-governed and trusted data assets
Support environmental intelligence, advanced analytics, modelling and future AI-enabled use cases
Identify opportunities to improve data accessibility, usability and decision-making across the organisation

D) Engineering Excellence

Implement automated testing, CI/CD and deployment best practices
Maintain platform monitoring, alerting and operational health dashboards
Contribute to solution architecture, technical design and engineering standards
Promote best practices in software engineering, data governance, security and reliability
Continuously improve engineering processes, tooling and platform capabilities

[What we are looking for]

Background

3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or related fields
Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines
Comfortable working with product managers, engineers, analysts and business stakeholders
Able to work independently in ambiguous problem spaces
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical Skills

Data Engineering & Data Platforms

Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
Experience designing and building ETL / ELT pipelines
Strong understanding of data modelling, data warehousing and data lake architectures
Hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing technologies

Systems Integration & Real-Time Processing

Experience designing and developing APIs, backend services and data integration solutions
Experience integrating data from operational systems, sensor networks and external data sources
Familiarity with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as IBM MQ, Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka or equivalent
Experience building near real-time or streaming data pipelines

Cloud & Engineering Practices

Experience working with cloud-native architectures and managed cloud services
Familiarity with CI/CD, Git and DevOps practices
Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions

Nice To Have

Experience working with environmental, scientific or geospatial datasets
Experience integrating IoT devices, environmental monitoring systems or sensor networks
Experience supporting mission-critical operational systems

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. 

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