Director, Data Science & Innovation, CIB

Standard Chartered Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Unmind wellbeing

Learning & development

Employee assistance

Job summary

Standard Chartered Singapore is seeking a senior data scientist to design and deploy AI solutions spanning classical ML and large language models. The role emphasizes collaboration with product owners, data teams, MLOps, and governance while driving high-quality client solutions.

You will mentor juniors, stay current with NLP and AI advances, and ensure risk and regulatory considerations are embedded in platform design and data quality practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields.
• 6+ years of experience in ML, data science or related roles in banking/finance preferred.
• Proficient in Python programming.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with product owners and stakeholders to identify use-cases and gather requirements.
• Develop AI/ML solutions for business use-cases in collaboration with the team.
• Productionize solutions with MLOps and tech teams.
• Stay up-to-date with DS/NLP developments and disseminate them within the team.
• Mentor and upskill junior team members.

Skills

Python

NLP

Deep Learning

Data Science

Stakeholder Mgmt

Education

Degree in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Scikit-learn

PyTorch

HuggingFace

LangChain

Spark

Hive

Job description

Job Summary

Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank has embarked on an ambitious journey to incorporate the latest AI and data science capabilities in all aspects of our business. This includes our Financial Markets and Transaction Banking businesses. To that end, we are seeking a senior data scientist with strong background and experience in developing and deploying sound AI solutions using both the classical machine learning techniques as well as the latest Large Language Models.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with product owners and business stakeholders, identify pain points and business use-cases and gather requirements
• Understand business use-cases and develop AI/ML solutions for various business use-cases in collaboration with product owners and the wider team
• Productionize the developed solutions in collaboration with MLOps Engineer and the wider Tech and Data team
• Stay up-to-date with recent developments in Data Science and NLP domains: algorithms, best practices etc. and disseminate them across the team
• Mentor and upskill more junior team members

Strategy

• Support the development of data and AI solutions in cooperation with business stakeholders, IT teams and other relevant parties and to assure that solutions are aligned to the business strategy, released on time, on budget and with high quality.

Governance

• Ensure data quality (DQMF) is applied for data analytics and AI projects
• Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements
• Risk and Audit Continuous management of the Trade Application System risk
• Proactively identify issues and actions
• Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
• Awareness of the regulatory requirements and ensuring these are catered for in the platform design

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Technology and Engineering teams across the bank
• Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business teams
• Digital, Data & Coverage Platforms (DDCP)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields
• 6+ years of experience in machine learning, data science and/or other relevant quantitative roles -Banking,finance, fraud, risk
• Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
• Experienced Data Scientist with in-depth knowledge of machine learning, deep learning and statistical analysis techniques
• Experience in NLP/DocumentAI, Entity Matching, Anomaly and Fraud detection would be an advantage
• Proficient in using ML, DL, and NLP libraries such as Scikit-learn, HuggingFace, LangChain and PyTorch
• Experience in using big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark and Hive in a cloud environment would be beneficial
• Familiar with CI/CD and MLOps frameworks and building end-to-end ML pipelines
• Experienced in leading and delivering data science projects and supervising/mentoring junior resources
• Experience in working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Self-driven and highly motivated professional with a strong sense of ownership and a passion towards delivering high-quality client solutions

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data Science
• Python
• NLP
• Deep Learning
• Stakeholder Management

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.

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