Job Summary

The Head of AI Platform will be responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining a robust AI infrastructure that supports Standard Chartered’s AI and machine learning initiatives. This role demands deep expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC), Kubernetes, DevOps, and MLOps. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with frameworks like MLFlow, Kubeflow, and RunAI, ensuring integration, deployment, and management of AI platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Development: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable AI and ML platform infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud. 
• Best Practices: Ensure best practices in software development, code quality, testing, and documentation. 
• Framework Adoption: Drive the adoption of AI and ML frameworks such as MLFlow, Kubeflow, and Unity Catalog. 
• Platform Security: Understand and implement platform security measures, including threat modeling and security frameworks, to protect AI and ML assets. 
• IT Integration: Ensure seamless integration of IT operations with the AI platform, optimizing for performance and reliability. 
• Infrastructure as Code: Utilize IaC principles to automate the provisioning and management of AI infrastructure using tools like Terraform. 
• Containerization & Kubernetes: Implement and manage containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. 
• DevOps & MLOps: Understand and integrate with DevOps and MLOps practices to streamline the development, deployment, and monitoring of AI models. 
• Cloud & On-Premise Deployments: Manage hybrid cloud and on-premise platform deployments, ensuring scalability and efficiency. 
• Innovation & Improvement: Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI, cloud computing, and infrastructure technologies, continuously improving the platform. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, AI engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure the platform meets the needs of various AI projects. 
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. 
• Strategic Planning: Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for the AI platform, aligning with the company's overall AI strategy. 

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

Key stakeholders

• TTO Management Team
• T&A Management Team
• CDO
• Software Engineering Platform Teams
• Business, Regional & Country CIOs & COOs
• Operational, Technology & Cyber Risk 
• Chief Data Office
• Group and Country Compliance & Regulators 
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and platform development, with a focus on AI and machine learning environments. 
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes). 
• Strong proficiency in DevOps and MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and MLFlow. 
• Deep understanding of threat modeling and security frameworks to protect AI and ML infrastructure. 
• Expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience in managing hybrid cloud environments. 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design innovative solutions to complex challenges. 
• Proven leadership and team management experience, with the ability to inspire and guide a team of engineers. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams. 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred. 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Hands on with AI Platform Development with experience in IaC and cloud service providers
• Experience on MLOps, LLMOps and RAGOps
• Hands-on experience with working on Cloud and On Premises Platforms
• Experience with design and implementation and deploying infrastructure at scle
• Programming languages such as Python 

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.

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