Lead, AI Platform

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Job Summary

We are seeking for an experience AI Platform Engineer to design, develop and maintain hybrid AI Platform across multi-cloud and on-premises. Build an AI platform that enables real time machine learning and GenAI at scale along with governance and security frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for designing and delivering hybrid AI Platform.

Develop and maintain scalable, efficient and reliable data and AI pipelines.

Collaborate with data scientist, data engineers, and central data governance team to align with a standardised data strategy.

Design and implement MLOps and LLMOps framework

Design and implement automated pipelines for prompting machine learning models to production.

Design and implement monitoring strategy for AI Platform and integrate with central observability platform.

Ensure AI platform delivery and services meet security and risk requirements and operational SLA.

Write and maintain detailed documents for hybrid AI Cloud Platform.

Cross-Collaborate with technology and architecture teams to align with best practices and standards.

Perform code-reviews ensuring lower tech debt and avoiding spaghetti code.

Stay up to date with industry trends, research in artificial intelligence field.

Develop and maintain strong relations ships with internal and external stakeholders.

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

Qualifications

Experience : 8-10 years of experience in AI and machine learning engineering, with a proven track record of delivering complex AI projects.

Technical Expertise : Strong proficiency in machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow), and cloud platforms and infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS, Azure).

GPU Expertise : Hands-on experience with GPU computing and optimization for AI workloads.

Programming Skills : Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Golang

Problem-Solving : Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively.

Communication : Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment

Skills and Experience

Experience for designing, managing and maintaining Cloud and On-Premises Platform

Experience on working with implementing AI Platform on physical servers e.g. Dell, HP etc

Hands on experience on infrastructure as a code tools like Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation, ARM Templates etc

Hands on experience in AWS EKS / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Programming languages such as Python, Golang

Hand-on experience on integrating open-source libraries like Unity Catalog, MLFlow, KubeFlow

Finetuning and Optimizing usage of GPU accelerated machine learning algorithms.

Designing and developing Ray Clusters whilst optimizing GPU usage

Hands-on Experience on implementing MLOps and LLMOps frameworks

Deep Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts

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.