(Senior) Assistant Manager (Data & Software Engineer), Dept of Medicine (Contract)

Job Description:

• Translate data requirements from business owners (clinicians and various healthcare practitioners) and data scientists into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, IT teams in the NUHS ecosystem on these tasks:
  • Data architect, and build ingestion pipelines which collect, clean, merge and harmonise data from different source systems
  • Day-to-day monitoring of databases and ETL systems, eg., database capacity planning, maintenance, monitoring; diagnose issues and deploy measures to prevent recurrence; ensure maximum system uptime
  • Construct, test and update useful data products based on data needs of end users
  • Research, propose and develop new technologies and processes to improve agency data infrastructure
  • Implement and enforce data security best practices, including access control, encryption, and data masking, to safeguard sensitive data.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience with analytic tools, e.g. Advanced MS Excel skills, Python, SQL, DataBricks and Tableau.
• At lease 3 years of relevant work experience in data and/or software engineering.
• Familiar with data warehouse concept and have production experience.
• Familiar with at least 1 distributed computing engine (e.g. Hive, Spark).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with the healthcare sector is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to collaborate across teams and functions.