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Senior Data Science/ML Engineer - Financial Crime

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Berlin, Germany
about 4 hours ago
full-time

Skills & Technologies

Machine LearningData ScienceAuditComplianceRegulatoryAMLDeploymentMakeTrainingAIAutomationRegulatory Compliance

Job Description

Team description

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 combine automation, AI, and engineering excellence to build innovative products that empower Risk and AML teams to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

The Senior Data Scientist role is critical to advancing our transaction monitoring capabilities through machine learning, feature engineering, and scalable model pipelines. You will work across the full model lifecycle — from typology understanding and data exploration to feature development, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring — helping ensure our Risk and AML controls remain effective, auditable, and compliant across products and markets.

We actively welcome applications from women and people from underrepresented backgrounds. Diverse perspectives make our team stronger and our systems more robust. If you're motivated by technical depth, real-world impact, and the challenge of making ML work reliably in a high-stakes environment, this role is built for you.

Join us to shape the future of financial safety and make a lasting impact!

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 docum

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Private MedicalPension25+ Days HolidayStock OptionsLearning BudgetFlexible Hours
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)

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