Data Scientist, Quantitative Strategy

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.

How do we work:

Outcome Driven - Our projects are not academic exercises. We are driven by the “so what” and make sure that our findings and models can be translated into tangible impact.
Start Small and Move Fast - We build things quickly. If it works, good — how can we scale this up further? If not, what went wrong and what can we do better next time?
Ownership - You are not just here to write code, but also to figure out what we should be building and how we should build it.
Continuous Learning - Working on new ideas often means not fully understanding what you are working on. Taking time to learn new architectures, frameworks, technologies, and even languages are not just encouraged but essential.
We are in this Together - We draw from the deep domain knowledge of our partners and best practices from our community of experts.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Quantitative Strategy team, to work on data projects/products for the public good.

As a Data Scientist, you will be identifying opportunities for data exploitation through in depth conversations with business stakeholders. You will scope out data science projects/products with clear deliverables that are actionable and impactful, and execute them in close iteration with the stakeholders.

This role requires an individual with strong data analysis, problem solving, and communication skills, who can engage stakeholders on their business use cases, identify appropriate data science techniques in each case, and deliver sound solutions that seek to influence actionable outcomes.

What you will be working on:

1. Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand their business challenges, sharpen the business use cases and translate them into data science projects/products.
2. Perform data cleaning, pre-processing, feature engineering, and build data science models/products to address the use case.
3. Present findings, solicit feedback and prioritise refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline.
4. Communicate the data insights and business impact of the projects/products in a clear and compelling narrative, supported with impactful visuals, to influence key decision makers.
5. Depending on the use case, design of dashboards and interactive visualisations as tools for data exploration and storytelling may be expected.
6. Depending on the use case, operationalise the use case by using existing MLOps platforms to deploy and monitor the machine learning models.
7. Opportunities to be deployed to another government agency as the core data science team for a sustained period of 2-3 years, to build up data science capabilities at the agency. This will involve formulating and implementing strategies to build strong pipeline of impactful projects/products at the agency, and executing these projects or deploying the products into production systems.

What we are looking for:

1. 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).
2. At least 2 years of relevant experience, in data science and/or public sector.
3. Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems, and identifying appropriate data sources to tackle these problems.
4. Proficient in writing scripts for data preparation and analysis, using modern analysis tools & programming methodologies.
5. 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.
6. Proficient in exploring and analysing datasets, applying probability and statistical methodologies and techniques to discover insights from the data.
7. Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make predictions.
8. Proficient in design principles and use of visualisations to best convey the intended information.
9. Capable of developing data visualisation from standalone graphs and charts on to highly customised tools and apps while tightly integrated to the data systems for real time visualisation of information.
10. Capable of translating results from analysis work into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
11. Capable of communicating results and business impact from analysis work in a coherent data story for stakeholders.
12. Have passion for improving public service and deliver public good using analytics and data.

Preferred requirements:

1. Experience in model deployment and MLOps
2. Experience in stakeholder management
3. Experience in agile project management
4. Experience in developing capability in others

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 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.

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