VP/AVP, Data Scientist, Global Financial Markets

DBS Bank Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Bank Ltd seeks an Analytics professional to develop AI, data analytics, and automation solutions supporting trading desks for better trade idea generation, faster and more accurate trade executions, more efficient trade monitoring and trade review, and effective report generation.

The role involves training predictive models, data ingestion and visualization, and collaboration with trading, sales, and COO teams.

Qualifications

• Degree or higher in analytics or related field.
• 2–5 years in data/analytics roles with financial knowledge.
• Ability to handle data extraction, processing and analyses.
• Understanding of AI models and practical implementation.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication.

Responsibilities

• Model Development: train and implement ML models for trading and sales initiatives; leverage Python, Spark, SQL, Tableau.
• Data Initiatives and Analyses: perform exploratory data analysis and create analytics assets; build ingestion pipelines; ensure data quality.
• Staying Updated in Data Science: evaluate new approaches and tools; promote data-driven culture.
• Others: lead, grow and mentor junior team members; break down problems into milestones for team delivery.

Skills

Data analysis

Python programming

AI/ML models

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in analytics

Tools

Python

Cloudera

Dify

Spark

S3

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Job Purpose

Develop AI, data analytics, and automation solutions supporting trading desks for better trade idea generation, faster and more accurate trade executions, more efficient trade monitoring and trade review, and effective report generation. The solutions are also to target to eliminate pain-points that addressed day-to-day activities of a trader or sales.

Key Accountabilities

• Understand trader’s requirement and pain points to create and develop AI solutions for better efficiency or elimination of pain points.
• Do ad-hoc data analysis for trading and sales creating economic value through right actions and recommendations.
• Provide analytics solutions for better insights on clients and tracking of financial products.

Job Duties & responsibilities

Model Development

• Train and implement predictive and machine learning models to solve various trading, sales, and COO initiatives.Ability to work with Large Language models for Generative AI / Agentic AI applied to trading.
• Ability to set up agentic solutions for trading and sales initiatives
• Strong understanding of modelling Collaborate with the business or ops to own and implement high-performance advanced analytics solutions and models using Python, Cloudera, Dify, Spark, S3, SQL and Tableau

Data Initiatives and Analyses

• Perform exploratory statistical and data analysis and visualisation tasks on diverse datasets from small scale to “big data and present results in a clear manner.
• Support the delivery of analytics initiatives to address business problems with the ability to determine data required, assess time & effort required and establish timelines.
• Develop data ingestion pipeline and create the analytic data assets Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis
• Set up dashboards or other UI tools for data visualisation tool.

Staying Updated in Data Science

• Take initiative in evaluating new approaches from data science research
• Inquisitive and like to explore new tools and packages
• Support the programs for changing the business culture towards more data driven

Others

• Lead, grow and develop junior team members
• Ability to divide larger problem into smaller potions/milestones whereby projects can have more attainable outcome and can be done by a team.

Job Requirements

• Degree, Honours, Masters or PhD in an analytics discipline;
• Good to have 2-5 years working experience in a similar data or analytics role with good knowledge of global financial market products;
• Ability to handle data including extraction, data processing and analyses.
• Ability to understand and implement AI and AI models;
• Good programming skills in Python or related packages;
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.

Location:

DBS Asia Central

Job:

Analytics

Schedule:

Regular

Employee Status:

Full time