Gen AI Engineer

Overview

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The role reports to the Head of AI Strategy and Adoption within the CDO office and is critical in driving AI adoption and enablement across bank functions. It is part of the Function Squads focused on FinCrime, with resources augmented from partners.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Delivering, building and maintaining data-driven solutions that are core to Group Operations strategy.
• Business: Provide thought leadership in data science techniques and business applications to unlock the value of SCB's data sets and external information. Continually evaluate new data sources, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure. Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects. Explore leading methodologies and best practices and import successful methodologies from international markets.
• Regulatory & Business Conduct: Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct. Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. Effectively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Key Stakeholders: Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.
• Other Responsibilities: Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, identify and prioritize AI use cases with potential business value, and develop business cases including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment and ROI estimation.

Qualifications

• Education: Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) to build and deploy production-grade machine learning models.
• Languages: English

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Building and deploying ML models to detect and prevent financial crimes, reducing fraud losses for Standard Chartered.
• Implement Generative AI solutions to generate synthetic data for training, improving model accuracy in FinCrime and Compliance use cases.
• Mentor and guide a team of ML engineers and data scientists, fostering technical excellence and innovation within FinCrime and Compliance.
• Lead a team to deliver production-ready ML pipelines within 6 months, integrating real-time transaction monitoring for AML compliance.
• Optimize feature engineering and model tuning to increase detection rates of suspicious activities.
• Roll out scalable ML systems that process millions of transactions daily, reducing false positives in compliance alerts.
• Drive adoption of advanced ML algorithms to identify sanctions evasion patterns, cutting investigation times for compliance teams.
• Deliver quarterly reports showing improvements in FinCrime KPIs, such as alert accuracy and case resolution speed, to senior management.
• Execute A/B testing on ML-driven compliance tools, achieving a statistically significant boost in operational efficiency.
• Hands-on experience with LLM techniques (e.g., RAG, Agents, Graph RAG) to improve FinCrime detection accuracy.
• Expertise in model optimization and hyperparameter tuning to achieve high precision and recall in fraud detection and compliance applications.
• Advanced understanding of statistical methods and anomaly detection algorithms to identify suspicious patterns in financial data.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank with a track record of impact. For more than 170 years we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities and each other. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our diversity, together with our brand promise to be here for good, and to live our values. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits to support mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible benefits in some locations.
• Paid time off including annual leave, parental/maternity leave, sabbatical and volunteering leave, with minimum global standards for holidays (roughly 30 days minimum).
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations.
• Wellbeing support through wellbeing platforms, development courses for resilience and other human skills, EAP and related resources.
• A continuous learning culture with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to learning.
• Inclusive, values-driven culture that respects diversity and enables all employees to reach their potential.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Banking

Industries

• Banking

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