Senior Data Science Lead - AML Risk

We’re looking for a Data Science Lead to join our AML Risk team in London. This role is a unique opportunity to work on building out the lead Data Science team and machine learning based technical solutions in the AML Risk team, which owns AML detection across all of the Wise licenses.

Your work will allow Wise to keep our customers safe and ensure our ecosystem remains free of bad actors in a scalable way. You will be stepping into an already functioning, but growing product team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement efficient and effective AML detection controls using a mixture of unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised learning with GenAI
• Create frameworks to prove controls coverage at a regional level
• Develop technologies to serve Wise’s diverse international user base
• Build a team of high-performing specialists, including hiring and mentoring junior members
• Evaluate and optimise our AML systems against internal and external benchmarks
• Collaborate with operational teams to refine processes and ensure effective feedback integration into our automation systems

Requirements:

• Experience implementing, training, testing, and evaluating performance of Machine Learning systems
• Strong Python knowledge, with familiarity with OOP principles
• Experience with statistical analysis and producing well-designed experiments
• Strong product mindset with the ability to work independently in a cross-functional environment
• Good communication skills and ability to articulate complex ideas to non-technical individuals

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions, such as Large Language Models
• Knowledge and experience within the Financial Crime domain