Senior Applied Data Scientist — AI/ML in Banking

OCBC (Singapore); Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

OCBC (Singapore) is seeking a senior Data Scientist to lead data-driven decision making, develop ML and AI solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes.

You will work on large-scale datasets, design and deploy ML models, and contribute to a data-driven culture across the bank. This role focuses on production-grade analytics, governance, and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, software engineering, data science, or related quantitative field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in data science, customer analytics, ML, or AI solution development with measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to manipulate large, complex datasets and apply advanced analytics.

Responsibilities

• Drive data science, advanced analytics, ML, AI solutions to address business challenges and create measurable value.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities where data and AI can improve customer experience and growth.
• Translate business objectives into analytical frameworks and ML models aligned with priorities and outcomes.
• Develop and deploy ML and AI models for production, with monitoring and governance.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to source and integrate datasets for scalable analytics.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

AI solutions

Programming

CI/CD

Education

Postgraduate degree in statistics, mathematics, CS, software engineering, data science

Tools

Hadoop

Trino

Vector databases (Elastic)

Ray

AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, EKS, EC2, S3)

Job description

OCBC (Singapore) is seeking a senior Data Scientist to lead data-driven decision making, develop ML and AI solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes.

You will work on large-scale datasets, design and deploy ML models, and contribute to a data-driven culture across the bank. This role focuses on production-grade analytics, governance, and responsible AI practices.