Vice President, AI Risk Specialist

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Singapore seeks an experienced AI Governance Specialist to oversee AI activities and manage associated risks. The ideal candidate will establish validation requirements and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include partnering with stakeholders and maintaining a robust governance framework for AI development. Candidates should have strong expertise in AI and data governance and a degree in a relevant field.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in AI or responsible AI, preferably in banking.
• Hands-on expertise with supervised/unsupervised learning methods.
• Experience with AI model validation and governance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee AI activities across the organization to manage AI‑related risks.
• Establish independent validation requirements for AI models.
• Partner with stakeholders and interface with regulatory bodies.

Skills

Statistical inference

Machine learning techniques

AI governance

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Education

University graduate in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Kubernetes

Job description

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long‑term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

About the Function

UOB's AI & Data Risk Governance & Control is a centralized function under Group Risk Management dedicated to sets out a Line 2 operating capability to oversee AI and data risks enterprise-wide with mandate to ensure AI systems use by the bank are secure, fair, explainable, and well‑governed throughout their lifecycle.

Role Overview

This role oversees AI (including Generative AI and Agentic AI) activities across the organization to manage AI‑related risks effectively and responsibly. Play a key role in establishing and maintaining a robust governance framework for AI development, deployment, and monitoring, as well as operationalization of data and AI governance across the Bank. This role will require defining and enforcing validation standards for high‑risk use cases, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, resilience, and ethical conduct in alignment with MAS expectations and industry best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a bank wide independent validation requirement for AI models and agentic systems, covering design, data, training, evaluation, deployment, and post‑production monitoring in a three lines of defense model.
• Validate high materiality models/ use cases leveraging use of AI including Gen‑AI and Agentic AI.
• Develop enterprise standards for fairness, robustness, reliability, explainability and responsible AI guardrails; implement model risk tiering, control points, and release gates for high impact systems.
• Operationalize MAS FEAT principles and both applicable internal and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct deep reviews of data lineage, features, architectures, metrics, and monitoring, challenge design choices.
• Review AI assessment including prompt injection/jailbreaks, data poisoning, market/behavioral stress scenarios, distribution shift, and failure mode analysis for agentic autonomy and tool use.
• Enforce documentation (model cards, FEAT assessments, privacy impact assessments), transparency artifacts, audit trails, and production monitoring for drift, fairness, safety, and abuse; drive periodic revalidation.
• Partner with relevant internal stakeholder and brief as well as interface with MAS and industry bodies (ABS).

Education Requirements

• University graduate in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Preferrable having certifications in AI ethics/responsible AI, model risk management, cybersecurity, privacy (e.g., PDPA), and governance.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in AI or responsible AI, AI & data governance, or related fields, preferably in banking or financial services.
• Mastery of statistical inference, hypothesis testing, experimental design, power analysis, resampling, and uncertainty quantification (including Bayesian methods).
• Hands‑on expertise with supervised/unsupervised learning, ensembles/gradient boosting, and neural architectures (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers).
• Proficiency in regularization, feature selection, score calibration, reject inference, and interpretability across tabular/time‑series/text/graph data.
• Have experience/ exposure with:
  • LLM fine‑tuning (LoRA/ PEFT), instruction tuning, RLHF/RLAIF, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), prompt design and hardening.
  • Building evaluation harnesses for truthfulness, grounding, toxicity, bias, jailbreak resistance, hallucinations, latency, and cost; set production guardrails for banking use cases.
  • Validating agent workflows with tool use, planning/critique loops, escalation rules, and human in the loop checkpoints, enforce action constraints and auditability.
  • Analyzing autonomy levels, error propagation, and recovery patterns, design safe execution policies for operations.
  • Involved in red‑team exercises for prompt injection/ jailbreaks, data poisoning, evasion, membership inference, and model extraction.
  • Measuring and mitigating bias with group/ individual/ counterfactual fairness metrics, conduct FEAT‑aligned impact assessments for protected classes.
  • Applying SHAP, LIME, Integrated Gradients, counterfactuals, and causal analysis, produce model cards, fairness reports, and decision traceability artifacts.
  • Designing secure prompts/models; output validation, watermarking/traceability, and tool execution guardrails; integrate with TRM and enterprise controls.
  • Threat modeling for AI systems; align with SOC procedures, incident response, and secure SDLC.
  • Translating policy into concrete control requirements, KPIs/KRIs, validation checklists, and audit artifacts; prepare board/regulator reporting.
• Familiar with Python, SQL, PySpark, PyTorch/ TensorFlow; LLM orchestration (Lang Chain/ Llama Index); vector databases.
• Familiar with Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Kubernetes, containerization, secure secrets management, API governance, rate‑limiting, and content filtering.

Additional Requirements

English, University‑Bachelor - Computer Science & Engineering, University‑Bachelor - Data Science & Analytics

Be a Part of the UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non‑merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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