Director, Data Science & Innovation, CIB (Singapore, SG)

<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">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. </span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Key Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Liaise with product owners and business stakeholders, identify pain points and business use-cases and gather requirements</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Understand business use-cases and develop AI/ML solutions for various business use-cases in collaboration with product owners and the wider team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Productionize the developed solutions in collaboration with MLOps Engineer and the wider Tech and Data team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Stay up-to-date with recent developments in Data Science and NLP domains: algorithms, best practices etc. and disseminate them across the team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Mentor and upskill more junior team members</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strategy</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    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.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Governance </span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Ensure data quality (DQMF) is applied for data analytics and AI projects</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Adherence to Risk &amp; Data Quality Management Requirements</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Risk and Audit Continuous management of the Trade Application System risk</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Proactively identify issues and actions</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Awareness of the regulatory requirements and ensuring these are catered for in the platform design</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Regulatory and Business Conduct </span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    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.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Key stakeholders</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Technology and Engineering teams across the bank</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business teams</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Digital, Data &amp; Coverage Platforms (DDCP)</span></p> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Our Ideal Candidate</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    6+ years of experience in machine learning, data science and/or other relevant quantitative roles -Banking,finance, fraud, risk</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Experienced Data Scientist with in-depth knowledge of machine learning, deep learning and statistical analysis techniques</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Experience in NLP/DocumentAI, Entity Matching, Anomaly and Fraud detection would be an advantage</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Proficient in using ML, DL, and NLP libraries such as Scikit-learn, HuggingFace, LangChain and PyTorch</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Experience in using big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark and Hive in a cloud environment would be beneficial</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Familiar with CI/CD and MLOps frameworks and building end-to-end ML pipelines</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Experienced in leading and delivering data science projects and supervising/mentoring junior resources</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Experience in working in an agile environment</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Self-driven and highly motivated professional with a strong sense of ownership and a passion towards delivering high-quality client solutions</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Role Specific Technical Competencies</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Data Science</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Python</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    NLP</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Deep Learning</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">•    Stakeholder Management </span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About Standard Chartered</b></H2> </div><div><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Together we:</p> <ul> <li><b>Do the right thing</b> and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do</li> <li><b>Never settle,</b> continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well</li> <li><b>Are better together,</b> we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What we offer</b></H2> </div><div><p><b>In line with our Fair Pay Charter,</b> we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.</p> <ul> <li><b>Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,</b> with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.</li> <li><b>Time-off</b> 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.</li> <li><b>Flexible working</b> options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.</li> <li><b>Proactive wellbeing support</b> 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</li> <li><b>A continuous learning culture</b> to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.</li> <li><b>Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,</b> one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Recruitment Assessments</b></H2> </div><div><p>Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.</p> <p>Visit our careers website <a href="https://www.sc.com/en/global-careers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.sc.com/careers</a></p></div></div></div>