Data Scientist

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking institution in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Data Scientist to leverage AI for optimizing operations and enhancing client experiences. Candidates should have a strong background in AI and related disciplines, with proficiency in Python and data visualization tools. This position offers competitive benefits and a focus on continuous learning and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of AI principles and techniques.
• Experience with data visualization.
• Ability to work with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify AI opportunities.
• Define AI business requirements.
• Mine data to uncover insights.
• Deliver dashboards to report on success criteria.
• Train AI models and recommend solutions.

Skills

Experience in AI

Predictive models

Machine learning algorithms

Data visualisation tools

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Python programming

Financial mathematics

Time series analysis

Data governance and management

AI regulatory compliance

Quantum machine learning

Education

Degree in AI, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Matplotlib

Plotly

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Job Summary

Our Data Scientists use their domain expertise to identify where AI can speed up operations, reduce costs, increase productivity, personalise the client experience; and build and deploy AI models. We’re looking for brilliant minds who are intellectually curious, analytical and willing to learn, with a numerate background in AI, mathematics, engineering, sciences or related disciplines.

Our Data Scientists use their domain expertise to identify where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can speed up operations, reduce costs, increase productivity and personalise client experiences. We’re looking for brilliant minds who are intellectually curious, analytical and love to learn.

About Our Digital Channels & Data Analytics (DCDA) Team

They support our corporate clients, by creating a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future for clients and global communities through technology, data and digital. They’re responsible for being an expert in digital products and services and partner with our sales and coverage teams.

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)

For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders including our sales team, relationship managers, traders and leadership to understand where AI can optimise our business.
• Define AI business requirements with tangible, measurable and commercial success criteria.
• Mine large sets of data to uncover trends, insights, and opportunities from multiple internal and external data sources.
• Enhance data collection methods through augmentation, normalisation, and outlier removal.
• Recommend appropriate AI solutions and train AI models.
• Deliver self-service dashboards to report on business use case and success criteria.
• Use data visualisation for predicted outputs and insights and to translate complete analytics into business language.
• Embed a framework of continuous monitoring to deployed models and solutions, for continuous enhancement.

Skills And Experience

• Experience and education in AI, Mathematics, Engineering, the Sciences, or related discipline.
• Predictive models, machine learning algorithms and large language models.
• Data visualisation tools, including Matplotlib, Plotly, Power BI and Tableau.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Python programming.
• Financial mathematics.
• Time series analysis.
• Data governance and management.
• AI regulatory compliance.
• AI techniques including quantum machine learning.

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.