Job Summary

•    Design, develop, and implement AI and machine learning models and algorithms.
•    Development/Programming experience in application development using Python.
•    Proficiency in Python is essential due to its extensive use in AI and machine learning.
•    Develop and maintain documentation for AI models, algorithms, and systems.
•    Experience with tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and other text preprocessing methods.
•    Familiarity with libraries such as GPT-3/4 APIs.
•    Analyze and process large datasets to extract meaningful insights and patterns.
•    Optimize and fine-tune AI models for performance, scalability, and reliability.
•    Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure high-quality deliverables.
•    Provide technical support and guidance to team members and stakeholders.
•    Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and ethical standards in AI development.
•    Building and deploying AI models in real-world applications.
•    Good understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards.
•    Good knowledge in DevOps, CI-CD.
•    Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
•    Recommend future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends, and regulatory requirements.

Business

•    Understand the bank priorities on the strategic initiatives and on the new programs planned further.

Processes

•    Adhere to ADO principles and guidelines on all Program delivery. 
•    Compliance on ICS guidelines, Security and Data protection
•    Compliant to SDF/TDA/ADO process and drive bank towards automating process areas removing redundancies 

Key Responsibilities

Governance 

•    Must be aware of the Group’s regulatory framework and is expected to adhere based on the role.
•    Must understand the oversight and controls related to Business Unit, Job Function and deliver.

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key Stakeholders

•    CEE Hive ITO, CEE Engineering Team, Application Delivery, PSS, Testing

Other Responsibilities

•    Manage and handle all CCIB CLDM Objectives.

Skills and Experience

•    Python, Flask, FastAPI, 
•    AI models
•    NLP - Natural language processing
•    Tokenization, Stemming
•    LLM programming
•    AI Prompt Engineering
•    Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices
•    OCP, Kubernetes
•    PL/SQL Programming, RDBMS 
•    React JS

Qualifications

Technical Competence

•    Design, develop, and implement AI and machine learning models and algorithms.
•    Development/Programming experience in application development using Python.
•    Proficiency in Python is essential due to its extensive use in AI and machine learning.
•    Develop and maintain documentation for AI models, algorithms, and systems.
•    Experience with tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and other text preprocessing methods.
•    Familiarity with libraries such as GPT-3/4 APIs.
•    Analyze and process large datasets to extract meaningful insights and patterns.
•    Optimize and fine-tune AI models for performance, scalability, and reliability.
•    Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure high-quality deliverables.
•    Provide technical support and guidance to team members and stakeholders.
•    Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and ethical standards in AI development.
•    Good experience in development using Java, J2EE and Advance Technologies.
•    Strong experience in open-source frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Transaction Management
•    Good Understanding code quality tools like SonarQube, AppScan, AQUA.
•    Strong experience on Unit testing and code coverage using JUnit/Mockito.

Good to Have

•    Experience in application development for Client Due Diligence (CDD), CRA, On-boarding, FATCA & CRS
•    Good knowledge on Cloud native application development, and knowledge of Cloud computing services.
•    CDD process awareness including AML, KYC and Screening
•    Enhance and improve CDD related processes.

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.