Lead AI/ML Solutions

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and take end-to-end accountability for the strategy, architecture, delivery, governance, production adoption and continuous improvement of secure, governed and measurable agentic AI solutions. • Set the engineering direction and translate business, risk, compliance and regulatory needs into scalable solution designs. Guide implementation of orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, memory, workflow automation, human-in-the-loop controls, sandboxed execution and enterprise integrations, while ensuring security, reliability, resilience, observability, auditability and production readiness. • Own execution from discovery through build, testing, release, adoption and support. Lead and develop engineers, establish standards for code quality, automated testing and evaluation, manage delivery and technology risks, embed responsible AI and control requirements, engage senior stakeholders, monitor operational and business outcomes, and build reusable patterns and AI-assisted SDLC accelerators that improve quality, consistency and delivery speed. Engineering strategy and architecture • Define and execute the engineering strategy, technical direction, solution design principles and roadmap for governed agentic AI capabilities across the AI/ML delivery portfolio. • Design and guide implementation of orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, memory, workflow automation, enterprise integration, human-in-the-loop controls and sandboxed execution patterns. End-to-end delivery and business outcomes • Own delivery from intake and discovery through design, build, test, release, production adoption, support and continuous improvement, with clear accountability for scope, quality, timelines and value. • Partner with business, product, risk, compliance and technology stakeholders to agree priorities, outcomes, dependencies, controls and adoption requirements.

Must-have Skills

• Agentic AI solution architecture and engineering design • Engineering leadership, team development and delivery accountability • Enterprise software engineering, platform integration and AI-assisted SDLC Other Skills • Responsible AI, model risk, data protection and control governance • Production readiness, observability, resilience and operational support • Senior stakeholder management, architecture governance and decision facilitation • AI/ML delivery lifecycle, evaluation and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Key Experiences • 8-12 years of relevant hands-on experience, including engineering leadership and delivery of enterprise AI/ML or agentic AI solutions in regulated environments. Certifications / Qualifications • Master's degree with specialisation in Technology. Languages • English

About Standard Chartered

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.
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