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Data Science Lead (AML Risk)

Data Science and AI Full–time
ID: #10129
Posted: 2026-03-09
Salary

Description

Requirements • 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, • (Desirable) Familiarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions, for example Large Language Models, • (Desirable) Willingness to get hands dirty with operational side by sides to understand their pain points, • (Desirable) Knowledge and experience within the Financial Crime domain, • We’re people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in, • Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.​​​​​​​, • And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic What the job involves • 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. This is an exciting opportunity to develop the program in a global company, • Your work will allow Wise to keep our customers safe and making sure we can keep our ecosystem free of bad actors in a scalable way. What you build will have a direct impact on Wise’s mission and millions of our customers, • 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 making sure the AML Risk Data Science team is well equipped and working on cutting-edge technology to sustainably support Wise’s growing customer, transaction and product space, • You will be stepping into an already functioning, but growing product team, • 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 Wise’s diverse international user base, • Working with product managers and engineering leads to understand staffing requirements, • Hiring specialists, • Mentoring more junior members of the team on technical and non-technical skillsets, • 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, • 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, • 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

Hard Skills 7
Skill Source Confidence
Python llm_hard
100%
Supervised Learning llm_hard
100%
Unsupervised Learning llm_hard
100%
Large Language Models (LLMs) llm_hard
80%
Data Pipelines llm_hard
80%
Model Deployment llm_hard
80%
MLOps llm_hard
80%
Soft Skills 11
Skill Source Confidence
Problem-Solving llm_soft
100%
Analytical Thinking llm_soft
100%
Cross-Functional Communication llm_soft
100%
Leadership llm_soft
100%
Team Leadership llm_soft
100%
Mentoring llm_soft
100%
Collaboration llm_soft
100%
Project Management llm_soft
80%
Written Communication llm_soft
80%
Creative Problem Solving llm_soft
80%
Verbal Communication llm_soft
80%
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