Solution Architect (Consultant)

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining your team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization's overall vision and goals
• Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently
• Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed
• Work regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed
• Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within your team
• Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale
• Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering
• Passion towards working for public good with interest
• The ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together
• 2+ years of experience coaching developers; helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers
• Proven ability to manage and mentor a technical team, driving high-quality deliverables
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical, with the ability to influence stakeholders
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to tackle complex challenges
• Ability to take initiative, work autonomously and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
• Collaborative mindset thrives in cross-functional teams and builds positive relationship
• Experience in implementation for Singapore Government digital solutions/products is a plus
• Experience in GovTech's products/ServiceNow/Outsystems is a plus