Job Description

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.
Our Data Scientists use their domain expertise to identify where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can speed up operations, reduce costs, increase productivity and personalise client experiences. We're looking for brilliant minds who are intellectually curious, analytical and love to learn.
Governance

• Ensure data quality (DQMF) is applied for data analytics and AI projects
• Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements
• Risk and Audit Continuous management of the Trade Application System risk
• Proactively identify issues and actions
• Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
• Awareness of the regulatory requirements and ensuring these are catered for in the platform design

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

• Technology and Engineering teams across the bank
• Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business teams
• Digital Channels and Client Data Analytics (DCDA)
• Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FSCO) / Compliance teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• 2+ years of experience in machine learning, data science and/or other relevant quantitative roles - Banking/finance experience would be preferred but not mandatory
• Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
• Knowledge of machine learning, deep learning and statistical analysis techniques
• Experience in NLP/DocumentAI, Entity Matching, Anomaly and Fraud detection would be an advantage
• Proficient in using ML, DL, and NLP libraries such as Scikit-learn, HuggingFace, LangChain and PyTorch
• Experience in working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Self-driven and highly motivated professional with a strong sense of ownership and a passion towards delivering high-quality client solutions
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields

Role Specific Technical Competencies
Data Science
Python
NLP
Deep Learning
Stakeholder 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.

Recruitment Assessments
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