Manager (Engineering), Digital Innovation Studio

Institution: Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Family Group: Administration

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

NHG Vision: Adding years of healthy life

CHI Mission: Driving innovation for systems change

The Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) is committed to catalysing and driving innovation for systems change in healthcare, thereby adding years of healthy life. Built on the foundation of co-learning and collaboration, CHI’s core is in facilitating innovation through its suite of platforms and programmes. CHI has built a dynamic network of local and international partners who are dedicated to fostering innovation, creating thought leadership, co-building initiatives to inculcate and embed a culture of innovation within healthcare. We spearhead innovation by driving the adoption of the CHI Innovation Cycle, care and process redesign and in the use of technology. CHI leads transformation at the care, systems and ecosystem levels to achieve better health and healthcare.

About the Digital Innovation Office (DIO)

The Digital Innovation Office (DIO) under the Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) drives NHG Health’s digital transformation across three key platforms: Digital Hospital, Digital Community, and Health Empowered by AI Launchpad (HEAL).

DIO’s mission is to enable transformation and deliver impact by supporting institution-led platforms that advance workforce and care transformation. Through collaborative programmes and partnerships, DIO serves as a catalyst for AI adoption at scale and digital innovation across hospitals and community care.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Digital Innovation Studio (DIS), the role will manage DIS’s proof-of-concept (POC) platforms consisting of multi-cloud sandbox environments and maintain full technical understanding of their AI and/or IT standards. The candidate will undertake important technical activities together with NHG project teams for the robust prototyping of digital solutions that support CHI’s digital and AI-enabled future.

In addition, the candidate will participate in user-engaged product iteration, and technology ecosystem stewardship—working closely with clinicians, operations teams, UX specialists, data scientists, and industry partners.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technical Prototype Engineering

Design and support the development of lightweight prototypes, including front-end interfaces, back-end services, and workflow components.
Collaborate with project teams to define technical requirements and translate business needs into implementable solution designs, ensuring alignment with security and scalability considerations.
Develop technical documentation such as PRDs that include human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflow and guardrail/safety mechanisms, and architecture diagrams.
Provide hands-on support for prototype development, testing, and technical troubleshooting.

2. Sandbox Platform Management

Maintain DIS multi-cloud sandbox environments across AWS, Azure and/or GCP, including user onboarding, resource provisioning, and access management .
Manage and optimise additional enterprise prototyping platforms, ensuring users can effectively build solutions using pre-established services and reusable architecture patterns.
Engage industry cloud providers and healthcare IT vendors to stay abreast of emerging platforms, integration approaches, and capabilities, and advise project teams on designing prototypes aligned with target deployment environments.

3. Administrative support

Support DIS in secretariat or administrative work where needed.
Design and deliver hands-on training workshops on modern software development practices and the effective use of cloud-based tools and platforms.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

(A) EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
5 years hands-on engineering experience (front-end or back-end in cloud environment).
Ability to build and iterate prototypes using both traditional development stacks (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, .NET) and low-code/no-code tools within enterprise security constraints.
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), containerized deployments, and enterprise integration patterns.

Proficient in drafting PRDs and creating pragmatic lightweight solution architectures to guide technical implementation

Desired Skills

Passion for healthcare and to create new solutions that can benefit patients or hospital systems.
Experience working in healthcare, or with standards such as HL7/FHIR, is advantageous.
Understanding of cybersecurity principles, data protection, and safe experimentation in enterprise settings.
Experience working with vendors or external tech partners is a bonus.
Flexible mindset to adopt new platforms and create new technical frameworks or processes in our evolving environment