• Lead the design and delivery of Generative AI solutions as a senior individual contributor, with deep focus on LLMs, RAG and context engineering.
• Design and develop LLM-powered applications, including ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, re-ranking, grounding, prompt orchestration, evaluation and monitoring.
• Build and optimise production-ready RAG pipelines that connect enterprise knowledge sources with LLMs to deliver accurate, secure and explainable responses.
• Define context engineering approaches for context selection, compression, memory, prompt templates, tool use and structured inputs to improve LLM reliability.
• Translate business problems into scalable GenAI solution designs by selecting suitable models, retrieval strategies, vector stores, orchestration frameworks and deployment patterns.
• Establish quality measures for GenAI systems, including groundedness, answer relevance, retrieval precision, hallucination reduction, latency, cost and user feedback.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, accelerators and best practices for LLM, RAG and context engineering use cases across teams.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, security, compliance and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and influence decisions without direct people-management ownership.
• Ensure solutions follow Responsible AI, privacy, security, data governance and model-risk-management standards from design through production.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance through architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting and mentoring of engineering teams.
Strategy
• As the Squad Lead of AI ML Delivery team, the candidate is expected to lead the squad Delivery for AIML.
Business
• Understand the Business requirement and execute the ML solutioning and ensue the delivery commitments are delivered on time and schedule.
Processes
• Design and Delivery of AI ML Use cases
• RAI, Security & Governance
• Model Validation & Improvements
• Stakeholder Management
People & Talent
• Manage the team in terms of project assignments and deadlines
• Manage a team dedicated for reviewing models related unstructured and structured data.
• Hire, nurture talent as required.
Risk Management
• Ownership of the delivery, highlighting various risks on a timely manner to the stakeholders.
• Identifying proper remediation plan for the risks with proper risk roadmap.
Governance
• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
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
• Business Stakeholders
• AIML Engineering Team
• AIML Product Team
• Product Enablement Team
• SCB Infrastructure Team
• Interfacing Program Team
• Deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, Generative AI application design, prompt engineering and context engineering.
• Strong RAG engineering skills, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, hybrid search, re-ranking, grounding and retrieval evaluation.
• Proficiency in Python and GenAI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, Hugging Face or equivalent orchestration tools.
• Experience with cloud-native AI engineering, vector databases, scalable APIs, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning and production monitoring.
• Strong architecture ownership, stakeholder influence, Responsible AI awareness, technical documentation and mentoring skills for senior individual contributor impact.
• Master’s with specialisation in Technology with certification in AI and ML
• 8- 12 years relevant of Hands-on Experience in developing and delivering AI solutions
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
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.