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. We’re looking for brilliant minds who are intellectually curious, analytical and love to learn.

About our Architecture, Technology Solutions and App Development Team

Want to be part of a team that focuses on what we can do instead of what’s already been done? This is your opportunity. From Blockchain to AWS, deep learning, and AI, you will work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to judge the different ways you want to grow – whether that’s by gaining diverse skills on a new project or deepening your expertise on innovative tech. Join us and you’ll find diverse paths, projects and people that inspire you to think outside-the-box and change the way people everywhere experience our products and services.

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 work with us, you’re 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 agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders including our sales team, relationship managers, traders, and supervision to understand where AI can optimise our business.
• Define AI business requirements with tangible, measurable and commercial success criteria.
• Mine large sets of data to uncover trends, insights, and opportunities from multiple internal and external data sources.
• Enhance data collection methods through augmentation, normalisation, and outlier removal.
• Recommend appropriate AI solutions and train AI models.
• Deliver self-service dashboards to report on business use case and success criteria.
• Use data visualisation for predicted outputs and insights and to translate complete analytics into business language.
• Embed a framework of continuous monitoring to deployed models and solutions, for continuous enhancement.

Skills and Experience

• Predictive models, machine learning algorithms and large language models.
• Data visualisation tools, including Matplotlib, Plotly, Power BI and Tableau.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Python programming.
• Financial mathematics.
• Time series analysis.
• Data governance and management.
• AI regulatory compliance.
• AI techniques including quantum machine learning.

Qualifications

• Experience and education in AI, Mathematics, Engineering, the Sciences, or related discipline.

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.