Officer, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Operations

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To ensure the seamless deployment, monitoring, automation, and lifecycle management of AI/ML systems across the enterprise. The role ensures robust MLOps and AIOps capabilities, supports Data Scientists in operationalizing models, manages production workloads including LLMs, RAG pipelines, and predictive models and ensures compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.

• Support execution of the bank’s Data Science & AI strategy through reliable ML/AI operationalization.
• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end MLOps/AIOps pipelines for scalable deployment and monitoring.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for model deployment, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Automate retraining, model evaluation, and drift detection processes.
• Monitor model performance, stability, latency, and data quality across production systems.
• Implement observability tools for logs, metrics, explainability, and failure recovery.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related fields.
• Master’s Degree or certifications in Azure ML, AWS ML, Kubernetes, MLOps, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering can be an advantage.

Experience

• 4–6+ years in Machine Learning Engineering, MLOps, AIOps, or related roles.
• Experience supporting Data Scientists with model operationalization and deployment.
• Strong background managing production AI systems, including LLMs, RAG pipelines, and predictive models.
• Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, MLflow, Databricks, CI/CD, and model monitoring tools.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Providing Insights
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Database Administration
• Data Integrity
• Knowledge Classification
• Research & Information Gathering