Data Scientist, Singpass (Anti-Fraud)

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity. At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better. We empower our people to master their craft through continuous and robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Our GovTechies embody our Agile, Bold and Collaborative values to deliver impactful solutions. GovTech aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today! Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

Who We Are:

The Singpass division builds Singapore’s digital identity system. This includes various personal authentication protocols, data sharing tools, and corporate identity systems through Corppass. The mission of the Anti-Fraud team is to minimize the number of compromised Singpass accounts and the damage done with them. This includes live monitoring for suspicious login behaviour, longer term fraud analytics, and collaborating with partners take action on compromised accounts.

What you will be working on:

As a Data Scientist, you will be identifying opportunities for data exploitation through in depth conversations with business stakeholders which includes:

• Understand the evolving problems and strategize about what data and techniques would be needed to solve it

• Develop different machine learning models, track their effectiveness, and deploy the most appropriate solution

• Build and operate production systems together with engineers to serve these solutions

• Present findings, solicit feedback and prioritise refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline

What we are looking for:

• A Bachelors Degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Quantitative Social Science, or related disciplines. We will also factor in relevant certifications (e.g., Coursera).

• Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems, and identifying appropriate data sources to tackle these problems.

• Proficient in writing scripts for data preparation and analysis, using modern analysis tools & programming methodologies.

• Proficient cleaning, imputing and correcting anomalies in the collected structured or unstructured data to ensure a high standard of quality in data sets to be used in the analysis work.

• Proficient in exploring and analysing datasets, applying probability and statistical methodologies and techniques to discover insights from the data.

• Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make predictions.

• Proficient in design principles and use of visualisations to best convey the intended information.

• Capable of developing data visualisation from standalone graphs and charts on to highly customised tools and apps while tightly integrated to the data systems for real time visualisation of information.

• Capable of translating results from analysis work into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.

• Capable of communicating results from analysis work in a coherent data story for stakeholders.

Preferred requirements:

• Experience in model deployment

• Experience in stakeholder management

• Experience in agile project management

• Experience in developing capability in others