Job Summary

This role is within the Security Monitoring & Analytics service line and supports the Cyber Defence Centre (CDC) to identify, develop, and implement threat use cases. The candidate will work closely with the Cyber Defence Center (CDC) and Cyber Threat Use Case Manager to drive and continuously enhance threat use cases and mature the Alerting and Detection strategy across the bank.

About Our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we are agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We are 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 collaborate with us, you are protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We are driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we are agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   

About our Cyber Defence Team

Searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business? You have found it. Join our Cyber Defence team and you will be given the resources you need to protect Standard Chartered’s most valuable assets – our people and our products. It is a demanding job. Our security needs are broad, unique, and constantly evolving. That is why you will have the freedom to work unsupervised and enjoy access to resources like cyber hub, our dedicated learning programme. Get ready to pioneer better, faster, and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, train and fine-tunes large-scale language models using state-of-the-art deep learning techniques and NLP architectures (i.e., GPT, BERT, T5 etc)
• Create and optimize data processing pipelines to clean, tokenize, and vectorize large, structure and unstructured text dataset, ensure high-quality data is into models for training and evaluation.
• Fine-tune pre-trained language models on domain specific datasets to improve performance for various use-cases, such as text summarization, question answering, sentiment Investigation and entity recognition.
• Responsible for leveraging AI agents and LLMs to extract valuable insights from security data and enabling proactive threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and automated response to enhance the organization’s overall security posture.
• Responsible for designing and architecting the orchestration of agentic frameworks, ensuring seamless integration and coordination of AI agents to automate complex workflows, enhance decision-making, and optimize system performance across cloud-native environments.
• Automate analysis, security testing, vulnerability discoveries, threat intelligence gathering and consuming threat feeds to track adversaries. Work closely with Threat Intelligence, Cyber Defence Center, and business stakeholders to identify potential threat scenarios and translate them into threat use cases. Identify and improve orchestration, data enrichment and triage capabilities through SOAR platform and improve decision making with LLMs and AI agents.

Skills and Experience

•    Minimum 5+ year experience in Python and its AI/ML ecosystems i.e., PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.
•    Expected to have strong knowledge and hands on experience with agentic frameworks, including the development and integration of AI agents and LLMs for automating complex decision-making process and intelligen   system interactions.
•    Should have experience in deploying NLP models and agentic frameworks to production environments ensuring scalability, low latency, and high availability.
•    Should have continuously optimize the performance of models by experimenting with the hyperparameters, model architectures, and resource efficient techniques to balance accuracy, inference speed and computational cost.
•    Proficient in writing and consuming RESTful APIs using python or other programming languages, enabling seamless integration between services, data retrieval, and efficient communication with microservice architecture. 
•    Must have hands-on experience in configuring and deploying services to cloud-native environments such as OpenShift (OCP) and Kubernetes, ensuring seamless scalability, security, and high availability in containerized infrastructure.
•    Experience with Apache airflow and similar orchestration tools, utilizing them to automate schedule, and monitor complex data workflows and ETL pipelines, ensuring seamless and efficient execution of tasks in cloud-native environments.
 

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.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off 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.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support 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
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.