Data Scientist Team Lead

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Job Description:

Lead the Data Science team in driving the adoption of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics across the Bank. This role is responsible for managing the data scientists, working closely with Group and local stakeholders to identify, prioritise, and deliver high-impact AI use cases that generate measurable business value for OCBC Malaysia.

Job Role:

• Lead, mentor and develop the data scientists, providing technical guidance, coaching and career development support.
• Partner closely with Group to localise, implement, and scale AI solutions within OCBC Malaysia.
• Design, develop and deploy AI-driven solutions, including GenAI copilots, recommendation engines and RAG-based applications.
• Build, validate and scale predictive and generative models to address business opportunities and operational challenges.
• Explore and apply agentic AI concepts to automate workflows, support decision-making and enhance customer engagement.
• Analyse large-scale structured and unstructured data across multiple business domains to uncover actionable insights.
• Develop clear data narratives and visualisations that translate complex analytical findings into business recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to co-create scalable AI and analytics solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Skills Required:

We are seeking individuals with the following types of skills:

• A degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in data science or generative AI solutions development
• Strong technical expertise in Python and modern ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn); familiarity with SQL
• Experience with deep learning, NLP, or reinforcement learning, and exposure to big data technologies such as Hadoop or Apache Spark
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior business leaders, translate business needs into AI opportunities, and provide data-driven recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
• Curious, collaborative and outcome-driven mindset, with a passion for applying data and AI to create business value.

What we offer:

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.