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Singapore Polytechnic

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - School of Computing

Singapore Polytechnic

Fixed Terms

Closing on 10 Dec 2024

What the role is

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The job of an academic is challenging and meaningful. Not only will he/she has both the knowledge and working experience, he/she must also possess the ability to deconstruct the knowledge and experience, guiding students to reconstruct them as their own knowledge. He/she must also possess a passion for working with youths, nurturing them, and moulding their characters. There will be opportunities to develop the curriculum, introduce new courses as well as be involved in consultancy and other applied research projects. Administrative work related to teaching and School/Institutional strategic initiatives will be an important part of the job too. Successful candidates will be expected to be resourceful and innovative with initiative and good communication skills.


Software and Applications
The appointee must be competent to teach in at least three of the following subjects:
• Programming – Including a good understanding of programming language, their operations (e.g., memory allocation, garbage collection, polymorphism, etc…), and the difference between various languages.
• Web application development – Including all of Website, Backend, and Database.
• Software Development Life Cycle – Including planning, collaboration, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• DevOps – Including configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating containers, and setting up monitoring.
• Software Testing – Including correctness, UI automation, code quality, usability, and security.

Apart from the know-hows of the tools and processes, the lecturer should possess clear understanding of the end-to-end process of software development, facilitating students in the deconstruction and reconstruction of concepts, analysing the trade-offs, and explaining how different companies may adopt a slightly different configuration from another.

About Singapore Polytechnic

As Singapore’s first polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) prides ourselves in providing the best learning experience for our students in pre-employment and continuing adult education. The mission of SP is to prepare our learners to be life ready, work ready and world ready. Our vision is to be a caring community of inspired learners committed to serving with mastery.