Job Summary

We're looking for a Data Scientist to work onsite within our Digital Bank. We're a small, but growing venture, with new and exciting problems to solve. We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

•    Develop and implement actionable analytics and data science models with relevant stakeholders 
•    Run and execute those platforms: 
o    By creating predictive models and machine-learning algorithms for marketing models 
o    By building and maintaining the behavioural segmentation 
o    By delivering the dashboards and reports that make data actionable 
•    Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques. 
•    Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis 
•    Extending company's data with third party sources of information when needed 
•    Crunch, mine and analyse data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies. 
•    Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, other business outcomes. 
•    Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques 
•    Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy. 
•    Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner 
•    Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance 
•    Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns 
•    Present information using data visualization techniques 
•    Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges 
•    Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions. 

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 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate:
•    5 years of experience in manipulating data sets and building statistical models, ideally within a high growth start up or digital business. 
•    Possesses a Master's or PHD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field. 
•    Expertise in working with Large Language Models, particularly GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) variants. 
•    Understanding of generative models, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques. 
•    Experience with a variety of machine learning techniques (supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection, deep learning, NLP, RecSys etc) and understanding their real-world advantages / drawbacks. 
•    Proven experience as a Data Scientist with past history of successfully delivering end-to-end data science projects (business understanding, EDA, modelling, deployment, monitoring, etc). 
•    Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. 
•    Experience using data science related languages/tools (Python, SQL, Spark etc) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets. 
•    Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Domo, Tableau, Data Studio)  
•    Experience with cloud technologies (AWS and GCP etc) 
•    Have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes. 
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams. 
•    Excellent communication and presentation skills 
•    Experience in Agile ways of working and familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Slack etc

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Data Pipeline Development
•    Data Architecture 

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.