Director, Data Science and Innovation, Cib

Job ID: 32748

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 2 Jul 2025

**Job Summary**:

- Our Data Scientists use their domain expertise to identify where AI can speed up operations, reduce costs, increase productivity, personalise the client experience; and build and deploy AI models. We’re looking for brilliant minds who are intellectually curious, analytical and willing to learn, with a numerate background in AI, mathematics, engineering, sciences or related disciplines.**About our Digital Channels & Data Analytics (DCDA) team**
They support our corporate clients, by creating a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future for clients and global communities through technology, data and digital. They’re responsible for being an expert in digital products and services and partner with our sales and coverage teams.**About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)**
For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.**Key Responsibilities**
- Liaise with product owners and business stakeholder, identify pain points and business use-cases and gather requirements
- Understand business use-cases and develop AI/ML solutions for various business use-cases in collaboration with product owners and the wider team
- Productionize the developed solutions in collaboration with MLOps Engineer and the wider Tech and Data team
- Stay up-to-date with recent developments in Data Science and NLP domains: algorithms, best practices etc. and disseminate them across the team
- Mentor and upskill more junior team members

**Strategy**
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.**Governance**
- Ensure data quality (DQMF) is applied for data analytics and AI projects
- Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements
- Risk and Audit Continuous management of the Trade Application System risk
- Proactively identify issues and actions
- Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
- Awareness of the regulatory requirements and ensuring these are catered for in the platform design

**Regulatory & 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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- Technology and Engineering teams across the bank
- Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business teams
- Digital, Data & Coverage Platforms (DDCP)-
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields
- 8+ years of experience in machine learning, data science and/or other relevant quantitative roles - Banking, finance, fraud, risk
- Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
- Experienced Data Scientist with in-depth knowledge of machine learning, deep learning and statistical analysis techniques
- Experience in NLP/DocumentAI, Entity Matching, Anomaly and Fraud detection would be an advantage
- Proficient in using ML, DL, and NLP libraries such as Scikit-learn, HuggingFace, LangChain and PyTorch
- Experience in using big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark and Hive in a cloud environment would be beneficial
- Familiar with CI/CD and MLOps frameworks and building end-to-end ML pipelines
- Experienced in leading and delivering data science projects and supervising/mentoring junior resources
- Experience in working in an agile environment
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Self-driven and highly motivated professional with a strong sense of ownership and a passion towards delivering high-quality client solutions
- Role Specific Technical Competencies- Data Science
- Python
- NLP
- Deep Learning
- Stakeholder Management

**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 c