Assistant/ Deputy Director, Engineering Management - Healthcare Tech

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives. The Healthcare-Tech division seeks an Engineering Manager to lead technical direction, design, and delivery of products for the public healthcare sector, including systems like the Organ Donation Registry and National Platform for Healthcare Claims.

• Define your team's engineering vision and strategy, aligned with the organization's overall goals, and communicate it clearly across the team and stakeholders.
• Partner with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize and manage roadmaps, delivering against the product vision incrementally and efficiently.
• Own the long-term technical roadmap for your squads, updating it regularly to address future product/business needs, security, compliance, and infrastructure requirements.
• Drive cross-squad technical alignment where needed.
• Establish practices, tools, and measurable standards to foster a strong engineering culture and maximize team effectiveness.
• Define squad norms for AI-assisted development, including guardrails, code review standards, and quality benchmarks.
• Hold regular 1:1s and structured performance conversations with engineers, providing constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance.
• Own and drive quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team.
• Contribute to recruitment efforts, particularly for senior hires.
• Proactively identify and initiate high-impact engineering initiatives that maximize outcomes for users and the business.

• Proven track record of leading & delivering technically complex products
• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Led legacy system modernization projects (bonus).
• Sufficient depth in modern full-stack technologies to credibly guide technical decisions: Front-end (Next.js/React.js/Nuxt/Vue.js), Backend (Java/TypeScript/Node.js/Golang)
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL & NoSQL) and data modeling
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Experience establishing observability practices and working with monitoring tooling (e.g., ELK stack, CloudWatch)
• Demonstrated people leadership - experience managing and growing teams of engineers across multiple squads or levels
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Deep commitment to engineering craft
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and work autonomously & through others
• Strong product mindset: customer-centric, data-driven, comfortable partnering with product managers
• Actively engaged with the evolving technology landscape including AI-assisted development tools
• Passion towards working for the public good

• Leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs
• Flexible work arrangements (subject to job role)
• Trust-based autonomy to manage time and deliver best work remotely