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**Lead Data Scientist - AML** **Lead the development of anti-money laundering systems** at Wise, using a mix of unsupervised, supervised learning, and GenAI. - **Role**: Lead Data Scientist - AML - **Location**: London - **Salary**: 90,500 - 127,000 GBP Annual - **Experience**: 5+ years in ML systems implementation & evaluation, statistical analysis, & experimentation **Responsibilities**: - Develop AML detection controls, frameworks, and technologies - Collaborate cross-functionally to refine problems & solutions - Optimize AML systems & provide data-driven insights - Automate operational processes & improve model performance - Package algorithms & manage deployment & retraining pipelines **Required Skills**: - Expertise in machine learning systems implementation - Strong Python knowledge & familiarity with OOP principles - Experience with statistical analysis & experimental design - Ability to work independently & refine problem statements - Good communication skills & product mindset **Nice to have**: - Familiarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions - Experience working in the Financial Crime domain **Additional Information**: - Wise is an equal opportunity employer offering competitive benefits & stock options - Apply now to join our mission & build the world's money network
- Compensation
- £90,500 – £127,000 GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
Lead Data Scientist - AML
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the worlds money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
About the Role:
In the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Risk team we are developing systems which are a mixture of unsupervised and supervised learning, with GenAI to detect and mitigate Financial Crime on a global scale. You will be working on cutting-edge technology to sustainably support Wises growing customer, transaction and product space.
Heres how youll be contributing:
AML Risk Detection System Development
Developing efficient and effective AML detection controls using a mixture of unsupervised, semi-supervised and supervised learning with GenAI
Creating frameworks to prove controls coverage at a regional level
Developing technologies to serve Wises diverse international user base
Working in Cross-Functional Teams
Working across functions to own and solve AML related problems at a global scale
Mentoring more junior members of the team on technical and non-technical skillsets
Performance Testing and Optimisation
Evaluating our AML systems against internal and external benchmarks
Developing decisioning layers to find optimal trade-offs between precision and recall
Providing data-driven insights on potential outcomes under various scenarios
Operational Process Development
Collaborating with operational teams to refine processes, ensuring effective feedback integration into our automation systems
Designing and managing projects that utilise excess operational capacity, such as manual data labelling for model improvement
Creating systems which provide in-depth insight to investigators on red flags and typologies present on profiles/transactions
Deployment and Implementation
Packaging algorithms into deployable libraries/objects and transitioning them from staging to production environments
Implementing and maintaining scheduled processes for data gathering and model retraining using automated pipelines
Maintaining production-grade Python services
A bit about you:
Experience implementing, training, testing and evaluating performance of Machine Learning systems;
Strong Python knowledge. A big plus for proven familiarity and experience with OOP principles;
Experience with statistical analysis, and ability to produce well-designed experiments;
A strong product mindset with the ability to work independently in a cross-functional and cross-team environment;
Good communication skills and ability to get the point across to non-technical individuals;
Strong problem solving skills with the ability to help refine problem statements and figure out how to solve them.
Some extra skills that are great (but not essential):
Familiarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions, for example Large Language Models
Willingness to get hands dirty with operational side by sides to understand their pain points
Knowledge and experience within the Financial Crime domain
Were people without borders without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if youre passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, youll fit right in.
Also, qualifications arent that important to us. If youve got great experience, and youre great at articulating your thinking, wed like to hear from you.
And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, wed especially love to hear from you if youre from an under-represented demographic.
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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