Job Summary

The ML Engineer acts as the key member of the squad, within IDP Surveillance Hive of Risk and CFCC under Group Functions, supporting the squad members with designing, developing, and deploying new AI/ML solutions to business.

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’ll work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to decide 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 and Operations (T and O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're 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’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   

Responsibility

As part of the squad, the ML Engineer is involved in
1.    Refinement
a.    Work with the product owners or business stakeholders to understand the key problem areas that requires automation via AI/ML solutions.
b.    Data collection, EDA, statistical analysis, predictive modelling A/B testing and reporting insights.
c.    Document the requirement in form of user stories.
d.    Walkthrough the refined user stories with business stakeholders and product owners to confirm the scope.
e.    Provides data driven insights for decision- making.

2.    Model Development and Training
a.    Work with developers to Translate business problems into ML solutions.
b.    Selecting appropriate algorithms and frameworks
c.    Focus on selecting, training and evaluating ML models
d.    Documenting workflows, experiments, and decisions

3.    Software Development and MLOps
a.    Build Prototype models and hands them off to engineers for deployment.
b.    Continuously improving models based on new data and feedback.

4.    Training and Documentation
a.    Train business users on functionalities and how to use them
b.    Prepare and maintain training material, FAQ and other documents on what has been developed, including business processes.
 

Skills and Experience

•    Strong teamwork skills and ability to work in cross-functional environments.
•    Strong background in business analysis, process automation, or AI-driven transformation
•    Strong understanding of AI Models, autonomous agents, and reinforcement learning, along with experience in prompt engineering, multi-agent systems and AI alignment
•    Knowledge of programming languages like python and should be proficient in Vector DB to store / process Contextual data, SQL(structured data) and NoSQL databases(unstructured data)  
•    Solid understanding of the AI/ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, LongChain, Keras, and Scikit-learn.
•    Integrating and preparing large-scale datasets for AI and ML model training.
•    Work with product and engineering teams to integrate agentic AI into real-world applications.
•    Knowledge on AI governance, ethical AI , Safety, alignment, and risk mitigation strategies.
•    Good to have Financial Markets Products, life cycle and understanding of Market Abuse Scenarios

Qualification

• AI / ML / NLP Models Knowledge
• ML OPS
• Agentic AI Design & Architecture
• Vector DB and Knowledge Graph

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.