💼 Full-Time Position

Lead, Data Scientist

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Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
📍 johannesburg, city of johannesburg metropolitan municipality, South-Africa
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Location
johannesburg, South-Africa
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Posted
June 30, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical execution and engineering delivery of AI and GenAI solutions across Group Risk, ensuring scalable, secure, and production-ready implementations.
  • Translate business problems and strategic objectives into clear technical requirements, solution architectures, and measurable AI use cases, ensuring alignment between stakeholder needs and engineering delivery.
  • Partner closely with business stakeholders, risk teams, and product owners to shape and prioritise high-value AI opportunities, conducting rapid prototyping and proof-of-value exercises to assess feasibility and impact.
  • Design solution architectures and technical patterns for AI use cases, producing high-quality solution designs, technical documentation, and architecture artefacts.
  • Drive the implementation and optimisation of Virtual Risk Manager / AI assistant capabilities, including LLM adoption, orchestration, retrieval, and perfor...