Lead, Machine Learning

Job ID: 26008

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Apr 2025

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Delivering, building and maintaining the Data Driven solutions that are core to Group Operations strategy

**Business**
- Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.
- Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects.
- Explore leading methodologies and best practices and importing successful methodologies from international markets.

**People and Talent**
- Recruiting, develop and retain a world class team of diverse data scientists and data architect

**Regulatory and Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- 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.
- Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

**Key Stakeholders**
- Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties

**Job Summary**
- This role will be reporting to the Head of AI Strategy and Adoption. The role sits within the CDO office of the Bank, and is critical in driving AI adoption and enablement across the Bank's functions. The aim of this role is to deploy as one of the members of the Function Squads that will be focused on FinCrime.- 10+ years experience in building and deploying machine learning models to detect and prevent financial crimes, achieving a measurable reduction in fraud losses for Standard Chartered.
- Implement Generative AI solutions to generate synthetic data for training, improving model accuracy by at least 15% in FinCrime and Compliance use cases.
- Mentor and guide a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation within the FinCrime and Compliance domain.
- Lead a team to deliver production-ready ML pipelines within 6 months, integrating real-time transaction monitoring for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.
- Optimize feature engineering and model tuning to increase detection rates of suspicious activities
- Roll out scalable ML systems that process millions of transactions daily, reducing false positives in compliance alerts
- Drive the adoption of advanced ML algorithms to identify sanctions evasion patterns, cutting investigation times for compliance teams
- Deliver quarterly reports showing improvements in key FinCrime KPIs, such as alert accuracy and case resolution speed, to senior management.
- Execute A/B testing on ML-driven compliance tools, achieving a statistically significant boost in operational efficiency
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) to build and deploy production-grade machine learning models.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs techniques (e.g., RAG, Agents, Graph RAG) to improving FinCrime detection accuracy.
- Advanced understanding of statistical methods and anomaly detection algorithms to identify suspicious patterns in financial data.

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Solution design and discovery
- Machine Learning and Gen AI innovation
- FSI experience and industry knowledge
- Leadership and management
- Communication and presentation
- Domain experience in retail, wholesale or wealth banking, financial crime
- Industry network and presence

**About Standard Chartered**
- 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.- 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.- Together we:
- **Do the right thing** and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- **Never settle,** continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- **Are better together,** we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work c