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About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.
Job Description
The role is a key member of Enterprise AI to engage with users, to develop and deploy Gen AI capabilities and applications, for business and support units, and deliver impactful outcomes.
GenAI is a strong assistive technology and multiplier for a large variety of tasks and processes. Enterprise GenAI based capabilities developed, customized and scaled for production use cases will significantly increase work productivity and expand the capabilities envelope for the Bank.
Your main responsibilities are to:

• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, technology and business/support units, to evaluate, solution and deliver GenAI driven business use cases.
• Develop and successfully execute plans aligned with strategic project and business objectives.
• Develop performant Gen AI capabilities through thoughtful research and experimentation, and thinking from first principles.
• Develop and deploy Gen AI applications with agile prototyping.
• Integrate Gen AI capabilities and applications into the bank's ecosystem.
• Stay abreast of fast emerging AI SOTA technological advancements, industry best practices, architecture, software resources and paradigms.
• Engage and manage stakeholder interactions and expectations.
• Provide deep expertise and advisory on Gen AI to diverse stakeholders.
• Contribute to Gen AI related validation, guardrail and benchmarking exercises.
• To enrich skillsets and increase exposure for our data scientists, each will also contribute in a secondary and significant task, in this case on Market Portfolio/Econometric Modelling.
  

Job Requirements:

• Min Postgraduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, with ability to reason quantitatively from first principles. AI related thesis/publications on GenAI topics highly preferred.
• Achieved consistent success in framing rigorous and data driven approaches to solve highly complex business use cases or academic problems.
• Min 5 years of advanced data science working or research experience, preferably in banking / financial services / quant / consulting industry.
• Self motivated team player, able to ideate innovative solutions and work independently.
• Highly skilled and successful in end-to-end GenAI/LLM deployment, with 1.5 years full-time experience. Demonstrable achievements is a must.
• Strong and demonstrable expertise and experience in Deep Learning a must.
• Demonstrable expertise and experience in adjacent topics such as Agentic AI /Visual /Audio /Multimodal generation highly preferred.
• Passion and some expertise and experience in Market Portfolio Optimization, Econometric Modelling or Forecasting highly preferred.
• Python programming and large data handling abilities. Highly skilled with common data science and LLM packages such as Pytorch and LangChain.
• Experienced in general end-to-end data science solution delivery and assorted tools.
• Ability to communicate analytic findings clearly and convincingly to business.
• Skillful in agile project management practices.
• Experience with data visualization packages and/or tools a plus.

Additional Requirements
Be a Part of the UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.
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Seniority level

• Seniority level Executive

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Information Technology

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