Job Description

Job ID: 43617


Location: Bangalore, IN


Area of interest: Technology


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 11 Nov 2025

Job Summary

We seek a senior AI software engineer to architect and develop the technical foundation of our AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE). This role focuses on hands-on engineering of Python-based AI platforms and products, from secure development through model deployment and production operations in a regulated banking environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform prototypes into compliant, scalable, reliable systems that deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

Key Duties

Leadership & Strategy

Define the AI engineering vision for the AI CoE; translate business priorities into executable, value-driven delivery plans. Help establish standards for AI software engineering excellence: secure SDLC, architecture, technical design, coding conventions, documentation, and inner-source practices. Drive a product mindset: clear backlogs, fast iteration cycles, and outcome-based KPIs.

Platform & Architecture (Python Full-Stack)

Design and implement reusable Python modules in the backend LLM, RAG/GraphRAG services, agent orchestration, prompt/version management, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and content moderation Data/feature/vector stores; retrieval pipelines; Text-to-SQL and tool-calling services

o Develop API and event-driven architectures (REST/gRPC/FastAPI; Kafka/PubSub), microservices, and front-end integration (React/TypeScript/Next.js) o Engineer for non-functional excellence: performance optimization, cost efficiency, resiliency, observability, and operability (SLOs, error budgets)

E2E Productionization in Banking

Execute technical implementation from PoC MVP production, including code development, testing, and deployment automation Build robust CI/CD & GitOps pipelines (build/test/scan/sign/release) for Python services, models, and data pipelines across hybrid infrastructure (Kubernetes/OpenShift; on-prem & cloud) Implement evaluation frameworks (offline/online A/B tests, drift/guardrail monitors) and model validation systems Develop automated testing suites, performance benchmarks, and monitoring solutions

Security, Risk & Compliance

Ensure data privacy, secrets, access control, and lineage; enforce SAST/DAST/SCA, container/image signing, SBOMs, data contracts, and audit trails. Align delivery with bank governance (model risk, data privacy, records retention, third-party risk); streamline approvals with evidence-backed automation. Champion safe-by-design AI: red-teaming, prompt-injection defenses, eval suites, and incident playbooks.

Operations & SRE for AI

Direct and help stand up AI-SRE practices: golden signals, Open Telemetry instrumentation, autoscaling, canary/blue green deploys, shadow traffic, and rollback strategies. Establish runtime cost/latency optimization (token budgets, caching, distillation/quantization, routing).

People & Stakeholder Management

Build and mentor high-performing teams (managers, leads, ICs) across backend, data/ML, and front-end disciplines. Partner with COE CPO, Data science team, CDO, AI platform, Security, Cloud, Data Platform, and Business Lines to unblock delivery

Strategy

Deep technical understanding of AI CoE strategy and ability to translate into engineering solutions

Business

Technical comprehension of AI model operations and their business applications within the Group

Processes

Hands-on development and implementation of Machine Learning/GenAI models and supporting infrastructure

People & Talent

Technical mentoring and knowledge sharing with engineering teams

Risk Management

Technical implementation of ML model controls, monitoring systems, and risk mitigation measures

Governance

Engineering of Responsible AI controls and compliance automation for developed models

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

CIB AI COE

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree (or above) in Computer Science, Computing engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Languages

English

Skills and Experience

Python Programming ML/DL Frameworks (Scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, TensorFlow) Data Science & Analytics Large Data Processing Cloud Platforms & Services Production Deployment & DevOps API Development & Integration Software Engineering & Architecture AI Model Risk & Validation Security & Compliance Engineering

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.
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