Director Data Engineering and Mlops

Job ID: 25989

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 22 Apr 2025

**Job Summary**
- The Head of Data Engineering and MLOps will lead the strategic design, implementation, and optimization of the bank’s data engineering and machine learning (ML) operations framework. This leader will be responsible for developing scalable data pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, automating workflows, streamlining processes, and productionalizing ML models efficiently and securely. The role requires deep expertise in data infrastructure, cloud computing, DevOps methodologies, and ML lifecycle management. By optimizing data and ML operations, this role will enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance within the organization**About our Technology & Operations Team**
- Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.- When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.**Key Responsibilities**
- Develop and execute the data engineering and MLOps strategy in alignment with the bank’s digital transformation and business objectives, driving innovation and competitive advantage
- Work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business leaders to enable data-driven decision-making, fostering alignment between technical and business objectives
- Partner with Data Architects and Enterprise Architects to ensure cohesive data strategies, scalable architectures, and seamless integration of data solutions within the bank’s broader IT ecosystem.
- Design, build, and maintain a robust, scalable, and secure data engineering and MLOps platform that serves as a central resource for data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers. This platform will support analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence initiatives by providing seamless access to data and tools for model development, deployment, monitoring, versioning, performance optimization, and productionalization, thereby accelerating time-to-market for AI-driven solutions.
- Build and mentor a high-performing data engineering and MLOps team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Ensure the team develops expertise in key areas such as infrastructure as code, processing unstructured data, and creating reusable software components, thereby enhancing overall organizational agility.

**Skills & Experience**
- 10+ years of relevant working experience
- Success delivering GenAI products in regulated industries
- Experience scaling AI platforms with measurable impact, AI governance, and cybersecurity
- Proven experience delivering software products to the enterprise / SaaS product launches
- Proven team-building and stakeholder communication skills
- Multinational and executive-level stakeholder management

**Qualification**

Relevant Degree qualification preferred.

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- GenAI Product Delivery experience
- AI Platform
- AI Governance

**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 collectively to build for the long term

**What we offer**

**In line with our Fair Pay Charter,** we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.- **C