Total 2 Manager software architect job vacancies in Engineering category in Singapore

We are looking for an Engineering Manager / Lead Software Engineer to take on complex and meaningful technical challenges in the public sector, driving digital transformation that directly improves lives at scale.

In this role, you will be responsible for setting technical direction, shaping engineering processes, and ensuring delivery of one or more products owned by your team. You will also play a key role in building an engineering culture that values excellence, collaboration, and long-term impact.

Job Responsibilities:

• Defining your team’s engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Staying on top of industry trends, with strong knowledge of how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained at scale.
• Designing and guiding the implementation of systems across SaaS solutions, leveraging cloud technologies where appropriate.
• Partnering with stakeholders to prioritize and manage product roadmaps, ensuring incremental and effective delivery towards long-term vision.
• Creating and maintaining a technical plan that anticipates future product and infrastructure needs.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers through regular feedback, supporting professional growth and career development.
• Driving adoption of best practices in quality, reliability, performance, and security within your teams.
• Encouraging strong engineering culture and introducing tools/processes that maximize effectiveness and impact.
• Actively identifying and initiating high-value engineering initiatives that contribute to the public good.
• Contributing to recruitment, particularly for senior technical roles.

Job Requirements:

• Proven experience building and operating large, high-availability software systems at scale.
• At least 10 years of development experience, with 5+ years coaching and mentoring engineering teams of 5+ people.
• Experience with modern full-stack application development, spanning contemporary front-end frameworks and scalable backend services across multiple programming languages.
• Hands-on technical expertise across the technology stack, including infrastructure, client-side, backend services, APIs, databases, performance, and data.
• Strong background in end-to-end system development, from user interfaces through backend and integration layers.
• Familiarity with Agile development, modular design, automation, TDD, CI/CD pipelines, pair programming, and infrastructure automation.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure) and container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent understanding of engineering leadership, balancing technical expertise with the soft skills needed to inspire and guide teams.
• Passion for engineering craftsmanship, teamwork, and creating meaningful impact through technology.
• Strong ability to lead teams toward achieving ambitious goals together.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• This position is for School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS).
• Liaising with industry partners to :
• Work with anchor/industry partners to secure sponsorship for apprenticeships, projects, enrichment workshops, awards and scholarships.
• Work with anchor/industry partners to arrange for student engagement activities including recruitment talks, enrichment workshops, networking opportunities and industry talks.
• Provide feedback on the programme's relevance with new trends and changes, and new skills required.
• Collaborate with SMU Office of Advancement to source for potential scholarships, study awards and explore other forms of sponsorship with anchor partners or other potential sponsor companies.
• Maintain and renew existing MOUs with current anchor partner companies (which provide apprenticeship places for students),
• Source for new anchor partner companies for new MOUs according to needs of the programme.
• Managing and supporting apprenticeship course (SE401)
• Develop and manage course design documents, mentorship guidelines and propose changes to the apprenticeship course when required.
• Work with the Programme Manager, DKHMCC and Registrar's Office to ensure smooth administration of the course.
• Conduct annual briefings to students regarding the apprenticeship.
• Act as the point of contact for both students and mentors from sponsoring organisations.
• Coach students in finding an apprenticeship which matches their learning objectives and monitor the placement process.
• Visit students and monitor their fortnightly reflection journals during their apprenticeship.
• Investigate any complaints or difficulties encountered by students and/or sponsoring organisations and ensure that appropriate action(s) are taken.
• Coordinate and grade students' apprenticeship deliverables and final presentations.
• Keep track of every single student's apprenticeship progress and completion.
• Conduct research to obtain statistics and feedback from the industry pertaining to apprenticeship, post-graduation SE job opportunities for future planning.
• Gather industry feedback on the current skill sets required for students to successfully complete their apprenticeships, as an important input for SE WSDeg curriculum reviews.
• Other marketing and administrative tasks
• Any other marketing and administrative duties related to the SE WSDeg as and when required including but not limited to providing support during SMU Open House and giving outreach talks to potential students etc.

• Bachelor's degree in IT (CS/IS/Engineering) with at least 5 years of IT professional experience.
• Pleasant personality with excellent interpersonal oral and written communication.
• Demonstrated organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Shows initiative, reliable, resourceful and able to work independently.
• Strong work ethics.
• A good team player.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.