# Lead Data Scientist - AML

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Risk team at Wise. As a global technology company, we are building a new network for the world's money, aiming to make it easier and cheaper for people and businesses to send, spend, and receive money internationally.

About the Role: We are developing systems that combine unsupervised and supervised learning with Generative AI (GenAI) to detect and mitigate financial crime globally. You will work on cutting-edge technology to support Wise's growing customer base, transactions, and products.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop efficient and effective AML detection controls using a mix of unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised learning with GenAI

- Create frameworks to prove control coverage at a regional level

- Develop technologies to serve Wise's diverse international user base

- Work in cross-functional teams to solve AML-related problems globally

- Mentor junior team members on technical and non-technical skills

- Evaluate AML systems against internal and external benchmarks

- Develop decision-making layers to balance precision and recall

- Provide data-driven insights on potential outcomes under various scenarios

- Collaborate with operational teams to refine processes and ensure effective feedback integration

- Design and manage projects that utilize excess operational capacity

- Create systems that provide in-depth insights to investigators on red flags and typologies

- Package algorithms into deployable libraries and transition them to production environments

- Implement and maintain scheduled processes for data gathering and model retraining

- Maintain production-grade Python services

Qualifications:

- Experience implementing, training, testing, and evaluating Machine Learning systems

- Strong Python knowledge, with a plus for experience with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles

- Experience with statistical analysis and designing experiments

- Strong product mindset with the ability to work independently in a cross-functional environment

- Good communication skills and ability to convey complex ideas to non-technical individuals

- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to refine problem statements and solve them

Additional Information: Wise is a company that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that diverse teams build better products, and we strive to create an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered to contribute.

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## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Python
- statistical analysis
- problem-solving
- communication

### Nice to have
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Large Language Models
- Financial Crime domain knowledge

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