Lead Data Scientist, GASP

Description and Requirements

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!

Who we are

The GovTech Anti Scam Products Team’s mission is to build tech solutions to detect, disrupt and deter scammers at scale. The work spans data infrastructure, developing and deploying AI & ML to scale proactive detection, API connections to partners, as well as front-end systems for enforcement agencies.

What you will be working on:

• Identify opportunities for data exploitation through in-depth conversations with business stakeholders.
• Understand the evolving problems and strategize about what data and techniques would be needed to solve them.
• Develop different machine learning models, track their effectiveness, and deploy the most appropriate solution.
• Build and operate production systems independently (with light engineering support) together with engineers to serve these solutions.
• Present findings, solicit feedback, and prioritize refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline.
• Establish best practices for developing data science / ML systems.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple product teams.
• Share your expertise, mentor and/or manage other data scientists.
• Help with recruiting.

What we are looking for:

• Experience in model development (e.g. regression, random forests, LLMs, Graph Neural Networks) and deployment (e.g. Sagemaker, TensorFlow).
• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Experience in agile development.
• Experience in developing capability in others.

We're here to improve how we live as a society through what we can offer as a government. Because our team focuses on pushing new initiatives, you will also have to:

• Identify potential projects that improve the public good.
• Design novel systems that work around bureaucratic constraints.
• Advocate and explain these technical ideas to other government agencies.

You're not just here to write code, but also to figure out what we should be building and how we should build it. You will work on meaningful projects to reduce scams and make a big impact on people’s lives.

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.