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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.     [Background] Product Development Offices (PDOs) is a new construct within the GDT CTOF to bring together Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to help Ministries and their agencies deliver digital products faster, more securely, and with better user outcomes. Each PDO partners closely with a Ministry CIO/CD, supports multiple agency product teams, and connects those teams back to GovTech’s shared platforms and practices. The PDO Engineering Leader represents modern *product engineering* - building teams that can move confidently from problem discovery and early experiments to scalable, reliable, user-centred digital services. They operate as the "Head of Engineering" for the Ministry, shaping outcome-focused delivery and platform-aligned technical decisions across agencies. Beyond guiding day-to-day delivery, PDO Engineering Leaders shape the Ministry’s technical direction through a product mindset — ensuring coherence across systems, promoting reuse and shared value, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and lifting engineering capability across both internal and vendor teams. They steer teams toward clear problem definitions, measurable outcomes, and evidence-based decisions. The Engineering Lead in a Product Development Office (PDO) is a modern technical leader - the "Head of Engineering" for a Ministry - someone who’s built, designed, or operated real systems, understands how technology decisions play out in practice, build capability, and can guide teams through the full journey from POC to scale.   [What you will be working on]   As Director/Deputy Director, you extend your leadership across multiple squads executing across multiple delivery threads (as manager of managers or across workstreams through tech leads) or a broader product (or infra) area, ensuring alignment, consistency, and impact across teams. You oversee multiple squads (including internal staff and/or vendor teams) by setting a unified technical vision and enforcing multi-squad standards that drive measurable impact. Your responsibilities include coaching EMs and Tech Leads, fostering cross-squad collaboration, and ensuring that your leadership structure remains lean and focused. You are accountable for delivering consistent outcomes and high-quality solutions by balancing innovative initiatives with essential BAU improvements, making strategic decisions that always benefit the organisation's long-term objectives   Role and Responsibilities Establish a unified architectural vision and technical standards that meets organisational requirements. Set rigorous expectations for security, scalability, and advanced DevOps/SRE practices across squads. Define and champion platform-wide architecture, tools, and practices that improve org-wide scalability, security, and velocity. Ensure systems are sustainable, cost-effective, and adaptable to future needs. Oversee design reviews and drive large-scale initiatives (e.g., major refactoring, system migrations) that yield quantif