Senior Data Science/ML Engineer - Financial CrimeNew

The opportunity

The Risk AI Engineering Squad is a cross-functional team within the Risk & Compliance tribe, responsible for developing cutting-edge data products and ML solutions that power Transaction Monitoring and protect our merchant base from Money Laundering and Financial Crime. We…

What you'll do

  • Build and ship production ML systems end to end: own and evolve end-to-end batch training pipelines, model versioning, monitoring, model deployment, and rollback for transaction monitoring models.

  • Build, maintain, and improve ML models for transaction monitoring, focusing: on detection quality, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance

  • Engineer features mapped to AML and Fraud typologies and suspicious: behaviours, working closely with Risk investigators to translate domain knowledge into alerting logic and threshold calibration

  • Run sensitivity tests on synthetic datasets, produce ML governance artefacts: such as model cards, and deliver audit-ready documentation to meet regulatory expectations

  • Own and evolve the AML Risk Score by analysing driver contributions,: monitoring drift, running back-testing, and recommending improvements to features, logic, and thresholds

  • Partner with AML and Fraud Operations, Product, and Engineering to translate: stakeholder needs into actionable, scalable data science solutions

What they're looking for

  • Track and improve detection performance metrics, adapt solutions to regional: compliance requirements, and contribute to system design documentation