Lead AI Data Platform Architect

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK seeks an experienced Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines and data infrastructure for AI, ML, and agentic applications. You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to retrieval, partnering with data, engineering, AI, and platform teams to create scalable, reliable, and governed data foundations for AI-driven products.

Ideal candidates bring expertise in large-scale data engineering, distributed processing, semantic modelling,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering or distributed systems.
• Experience building enterprise-scale data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines powering AI, ML, and agentic applications.
• Develop semantic modelling frameworks and reusable architecture blueprints.
• Collaborate with AI, data science, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Apply governance, security, and data protection controls across the data lifecycle.
• Maintain documentation and runbooks for data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Enterprise-scale data solutions

Data modeling

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Parquet

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Graph databases

Vector databases

Document stores

Knowledge graphs

RDF

Job description

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK seeks an experienced Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines and data infrastructure for AI, ML, and agentic applications. You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to retrieval, partnering with data, engineering, AI, and platform teams to create scalable, reliable, and governed data foundations for AI-driven products.

Ideal candidates bring expertise in large-scale data engineering, distributed processing, semantic modelling,