Head, AI Data Solutioning, AI Data Engineering, xData

What The Role Is

The Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which aims to pioneer innovation solutions and develop world class science and technology capabilities to transform and empower the Home Team in delivering safety and security for Singapore.

The Head, AI Data Solutioning is responsible to architect and lead the development of scalable, intelligent and robust data solutions that power cutting-edge AI solutions in HTX and Home Teams. This role plays a pivotal role to designing and optimizing the end-to-end lifecycle, from ingestion to consumption, ensuring that AI models are fuelled by high-quality, well-governed, and rich contextual data. This role drives the following AI & Data Engineering initiatives:

Home Teams Data Platforms and System Integrations
AI Data Engineering that comprises of multiple systems in different phases.

What You Will Be Working On

The job holder will be responsible for the following:

Provide guidance as SME to formulate capabilities development roadmaps for the AI and Data Engineering domain areas.
Data Integration: Oversees the integration of data from various sources, ensuring consistency, accuracy and accessibility.
Data Pipeline Development: Build and manage efficient data pipelines to process large volumes of data for AI products and applications.
Data Quality Assurance: Establish protocols for data quality, validation, and governance.
Review all Data Engineering (including Data Governance and compliance with IM requirements) requirements to deliver AI Product to ensure technical feasibility, completeness and comprehensiveness with high quality.
Performance Optimization: Optimize data processing performance for complex AI models.
Security: Ensure data security and compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Including AI Governance and Security
Innovation: Stay updated with the latest AI Data Engineering technologies and best practices, advocating for the adoption within HTX.
Guide the team to deliver Data Engineering capabilities within stipulated timeline, compliant with governance and security guidelines/standards.
Facilitate the formulation of data sharing and data consumption requirements, design, implementation and integration of data solution for the identified project.

What We Are Looking For

Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines.
Minimum 7 years of relevant working experience including a minimum of 3 year in a leadership position
Strong interest in technologies and innovation, particularly in AI Data Engineering, solutioning and data management.
Strong planning and project management skills. PMP or equivalent certification would be an advantage.
Able to work independently and within a team.
Facilitation skills, planning skills, problem-solving skills, organising capabilities and foresight to drive projects.
Good interpersonal and communications skills for internal/external stakeholders’ engagement.
Experience in building government systems that meet IM8 policies would be an advantage.

Technical Skills

Able to design and implement a data solution.
Has professional experience with Hadoop ecosystem would be an advantage.
Has experience in building solutions on any cloud provider e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP.
Strong knowledge in networking and system security would be an advantage
Possess strong knowledge in:
Data modelling (OLTP, OLAP, dimensional modelling).
Cloud data services (AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery, Azure Synapse/Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
Big data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.)
ETL/ELT frameworks and tools (Airflow, Talend, Informatica, dbt, etc.)
Hands-on experience with:
SQL, Python and distributed systems
Kubernetes and Docker
CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
Holds a CDMP certification would be an advantage.

All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance.

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement.