Overview
Group Data Office – AI Lab
Description
OVERALL ROLE PURPOSE:
· Working within the Group Data Science team, you will leverage huge volumes of Structured and Unstructured data to solve real business problems across the OCBC Group.
· You will work closely with business to understand their problem statements and transform them into ML and AI challenges when needed.
· You will work on AI and Generative AI, assessing, building, and serving AI applications for conversational bots and content generation.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Work with business leaders across OCBC Group, you will lead a Data Science squad to identify opportunities for leveraging big data, conventional AI and gen AI techniques to drive value for our customers and business.
· Particularly for this role, the targeted use cases would fall into improve the banks’ day-to-day operational efficiencies, reducing risks and improving our clients’ customer experiences.
· Partner with Data Engineering to source internal & external datasets for analysis
· Develop and maintain machine learning/deep learning models to achieve the desire business outcomes – such as marketing recommendations, fraud detection or credit scoring.
· Coordinate with different functional teams to deploy models and smart applications into Production.
· Production of complex and large pretrained and fine tune models.
· Use MLOps processes and tools to monitor and refine Production model performance and accuracy.
Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS:
Specific Knowledge:
· Experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models, with a background in Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Computer Science or other quantitative field.
· Experience leading a team of seasoned Data Scientists with exposure to cross-functional team leadership.
· Hands-on programming experience, with solid understanding of AI/software engineering design patterns and best practices. Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Trino and VectorDB (elastic), Ray.
· Ideally experience in On-premise distributed Framework for serving and training models.
· Ideally experience with large language model fine tuning and distilling.
· Experienced in the use of CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Jira, Jenkins, GIT/Bitbucket. Ideally has track record of deploying Machine Learning solutions into Production at scale for AI and GenAI.
Communication & Soft Skills:
· Ability to execute in a fast-paced environment.
· Creativity to see possibilities within the data & translate into compelling stories, decisions and actions for non-technical business users.
· Strong communication skills and drive to deliver business benefits in the real-world.
· Genuine drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
Primary Location
: Singapore
Job
: Data Scientist
Organization
: Group Data Office – AI Lab
Schedule
: Permanent
Job Posting
: 21-Mar-2025, 7:27:22 AM
About OCBC Bank
OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.
OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services.
OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang.
OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals.
OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
