Senior/ Data Scientist, Digital Capabilities & Innovation

Location: Singapore

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

[What the role is]

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

This role will be key driver to shape how the public sector learns and applies foundational data and AI concepts—through bootcamps, workshops, and capability initiatives. Beyond training, you’ll also support those applications through innovation efforts like prompt engineering competitions, hackathons and incubators, bringing both technical depth and applied knowledge to the table.
If you're passionate about making technical skills accessible, working across disciplines, and applying data for real-world impact, we’d love to have you on board.

[What you will be working on]

Training & Curriculum Development

• Design, develop, and deliver comprehensive Data & AI curriculum potentially reaching over 1,000 public officers annually through bootcamps, workshops, and hands-on training sessions.

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with training providers, Central Platform teams, and GovTech product teams to integrate government digital platforms into training programs to enriching the learning outcomes.

• Lead assessment of Data Champions and AI Champions bootcamp projects, curriculum and programme execution to ensure quality and robustness.

• Develop practical exercises and case studies based on real public sector use cases when necessary.

• Regularly research on the latest developments on Data & AI and assess how public officers could be empowered to adopt them.

Digital/AI Innovation

• Provide technical leadership for AI Prompt Engineering competitions, including challenge design, platform evaluation, and workshop delivery

• Support the design and implementation of experimentation programs such as AI incubators and hackathons

• Provide consultancy on technical design and use of data for innovation programmes such as hackathons and AI incubators.

[What we are looking for]

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Quantitative Social Science, or related disciplines. We will also factor in relevant certifications (e.g., Coursera).

• Minimum 2 years of experience in data science, with demonstrable experience in:

  • Developing and delivering technical training programs; and/or

  • Implementing data & AI projects in production environments

• Strong proficiency in Python, R, and SQL, with the ability to teach and demonstrate these skills effectively

• Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems and identifying appropriate data sources to tackle these problems.

• Proficient cleaning, imputing and correcting anomalies in the collected structured or unstructured data to ensure a high standard of quality in data sets to be used in the analysis work.

• Proficient in exploring and analysing datasets, applying probability and statistical

• methodologies and techniques to discover insights from the data.

• Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make

• predictions.

• Practical knowledge of statistical analysis, machine learning algorithms and their applications

• Expertise in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI) and the demonstrate good data storytelling to educate others.

• Curriculum development or instructional design

• Have passion for improving public service and deliver public good using analytics and data.

Preferred Requirements:

• Familiarity with developing solutions using LLMs, MLOps or model deployment.

• Experience running workshops or innovation challenges.

• Ability to contextualise AI concepts to non-engineers and enthusiasts to support their upskilling, adoption/applications.

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 programmes. 

  

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.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech