Data Scientist, AI Lab

Overall Role Purpose:

• Working within the Group Data Science, 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 to identify opportunities for leveraging big data and Data Science to drive value for our customers and business.
• Develop and maintain machine learning/deep learning models to achieve the desired business outcomes – such as trading algorithms, targeting models, or building agentic systems to handle complex workflows.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to deploy models and smart applications into production of complex and large pretrained and fine-tuned models.
• Use MLOps processes and tools to monitor and refine production model performance and accuracy.

Specific Knowledge:

• 5 years+ of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models, ideally with a Master’s or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or other quantitative field.
• Experience leading a team.
• Strong programming experience, with solid understanding of software engineering design patterns and best practices.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Trino, and VectorDB (elastic).
• Ideally experience in on-premise distributed frameworks for serving and training.
• Experienced in the use of CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Jira, Jenkins, GIT/Bitbucket.
• Ideally has a 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 and 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.

Location: Singapore

Position: Data Scientist

Department: Group Data Office - AI Lab

Type: Permanent

Employment: Full-time

Posted on: 23-Jan-2025, 1:08:50 AM