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What the role is
GovTech builds digital products for the Singapore Government. We are hiring a Data Engineer to support NEA's environmental protection and incident response mission.
Environmental pollution incidents can affect public health, disrupt operations, and require rapid coordination across multiple teams. During investigations, officers often need to draw upon data from environmental sensors, weather systems, public feedback, operational systems and geospatial sources to determine what happened, where to investigate, and what actions should be taken.
As a Data Engineer, you will design and build the data foundations that power environmental intelligence, operational decision-making and incident response capabilities. Your work will help transform fragmented environmental data into trusted, timely and actionable information that enables officers to respond faster and make better decisions during environmental incidents.
This is a mission-driven role where your engineering work directly supports environmental protection and public service outcomes.
What You Will Be Working On
You will be part of a multidisciplinary product team building:
Environmental Incident Response Platforms
Platforms that help officers build a common operational picture by bringing together environmental, operational and public feedback data to support faster investigations and decision-making during environmental incidents.
Environmental Monitoring & Intelligence
Capabilities that integrate environmental monitoring systems, sensor networks, weather information, public feedback and operational datasets into trusted and actionable information for officers, analysts and management.
Environmental Intelligence & Data Products
Data products that transform fragmented data into trusted, decision-ready insights for operational response, reporting, advanced analytics and future AI-enabled use cases.
What You'll Do
A) Systems & Data Integration
Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs to integrate environmental monitoring systems, sensor networks, public feedback platforms and operational systems
Build reliable data ingestion capabilities for internal and external data sources
Develop data integration services that support the timely exchange of environmental and operational data across multiple systems
Implement robust error handling, retry mechanisms and observability practices to ensure operational reliability
Ensure data quality, traceability and lineage across critical environmental datasets
B) Data Platform & Engineering
Build and maintain batch and near real-time data pipelines that process environmental, operational and public feedback data
Design scalable data models that support incident investigations, operational reporting and analytics use cases
Transform fragmented datasets into trusted, consumable and decision-ready data…