Data Scientist, National Jobs-Skills Data Office (SIPD)

SSG is a dynamic and forward-thinking organization dedicated to empowering individuals and shaping the future of Singapore's workforce. As the National Skills Authority, SSG leads the charge in driving the SkillsFuture movement, a national initiative that promotes lifelong learning and skills development. With a strong focus on innovation and collaboration, SSG works closely with employers, training providers, and individuals to create a vibrant ecosystem of learning and growth. By offering a wide range of initiatives, programs, and funding schemes, SSG enables individuals to unlock their full potential, acquire new competencies, and stay ahead in a rapidly changing job market. The National Jobs-Skills Data Office, under the Skills Intelligence and Planning Division, serves three core functions: ·      Data and Algorithms Innovation and R&D: Undertake development of new data models and algorithms to serve whole of government’s jobs-skills intelligence needs; ·      Jobs-Skills Product Management, Development and Delivery: Manage and enhance jobs-skills products, which includes UX/UI design and end-to-end product life cycle management; ·      Data Management and Operations: Centrally manage data quality, data models and data infrastructure to support internal and external users Come join this game-changing team in SSG, where we empower employers, citizens, training providers, and policymakers to make informed decisions by using a user-centered approach, providing trusted source of jobs-skills data and insights, and a common set of jobs-skills taxonomies for a skills-first future! As a Data Scientist, you will be a key member of the Data and Algorithms Innovation and R&D team, transforming complex data into meaningful insights that drive strategic decisions, building statistical, machine learning and graph models to solve real-world problems, deg experiments to measure impact and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. By combining analytical thinking, programming skills and policy understanding, you will help uncover opportunities, solve real-world problems and guide data-informed decision-making across SSG. Develop and deploy advanced analytical models to extract deeper insights from jobs, skills, and tasks data, applying statistical and machine learning techniques including feature engineering, model selection, and validation using appropriate performance metrics Design and build scalable data infrastructure by creating modular, reusable data pipelines and prototyping advanced analytics solutions that operationalize insights to support evolving stakeholder needs across various partnership levels Translate complex data signals into strategic insights through close collaboration with product and policy teams, ensuring analytical outputs meaningfully inform workforce and industry planning decisions that align with national skills development objectives Drive continuous analytical improvemen