Head, Machine Learning

Job Summary

This role will be reporting to the Head of AI Solutions and sitting within the CDO office of the bank. It is critical in driving AI adoption and enablement across the bank functions. The aim of this role is to lead the data science and machine learning team.

About our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&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.

Key Responsibilities

· Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

· Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.

· Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation

· Delivering, building and maintaining the Data Driven solutions that are core to Group Operations strategy.

· Provide thought leadership in data science techniques and business applications to unlock the value of SCB’s data sets and external information.

· Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.

· Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects.

· Explore leading methodologies and best practices and importing successful methodologies from international markets.

Our Ideal Candidate

Skills & Experience

· 15 years of domain experience including Machine Learning

· Building and deploying machine learning models to detect and prevent financial crimes, achieving a measurable reduction in fraud losses for Standard Chartered.

· Mentor and guide a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

· Lead a team to deliver production-ready ML pipelines, integrating real-time transaction monitoring for compliance.

· Optimize feature engineering and model tuning to increase detection rates of suspicious activities

· Drive the adoption of advanced ML algorithms to identify sanctions evasion patterns, cutting investigation times for compliance teams.

· Expertise in model optimization and hyperparameter tuning to achieve high precision

Qualification

· Relevant degree qualification preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies

· Domain Experience

· Manage Conduct

· Machine Learning

· Risk Management

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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