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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\nJob Description\nWe’re looking for a Data Science Lead to join our AML Risk team in London.\nThis 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.\nAbout the Role:\nIn 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.\nYou will be stepping into an already functioning, but growing product team.\nHere’s how you’ll be contributing\nAML Risk Detection System Development\n\nDeveloping efficient and effective AML detection controls using a mixture of unsupervised, semi supervised and supervised learning with GenAI\nCreating frameworks to prove controls coverage at a regional level\nDeveloping technologies to serve Wise’s diverse international user base\nBuilding a team of high performing specialists\nWorking with product managers and engineering leads to understand staffing requirements\n\nHiring specialists\n\nMentoring more junior members of the team on technical and non-technical skillsets\n\nPerformance Testing and Optimisation\nEvaluating our AML systems against internal and external benchmarks\nDeveloping decisioning layers to find optimal trade-offs between precision and recall\nProviding data-driven insights on potential outcomes under various scenarios\nOperational Process Development\nCollaborating with operational teams to refine processes, ensuring effective feedback integration into our automation systems\n\nDesigning and managing projects that utilise excess operational capacity, such as manual data labelling for model improvement\n\nCreating systems which provide in-depth insight to investigators on red flags and typologies present on profiles/transactions\n\nDeployment and Implementation\nPackaging algorithms into deployable libraries/objects and transitioning them from staging to production environments\n\nImplementing and maintaining scheduled processes for data gathering and model retraining using automated pipelines\n\nMaintaining production-grade Python services\n\nA bit about you:\nExperience implementing, training, testing and evaluating performance of Machine Learning systems;\n\nStrong Python knowledge. A big plus for proven familiarity and experience with OOP principles;\n\nExperience with statistical analysis, and ability to produce well-designed experiments;\n\nA strong product mindset with the ability to work independently in a cross-functional and cross-team environment;\n\nGood communication skills and ability to get the point across to non-technical individuals;\n\nStrong problem solving skills with the ability to help refine problem statements and figure out how to solve them.\n\nSome extra skills that are great (but not essential):\nFamiliarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions, for example Large Language Models\n\nWillingness to get hands dirty with operational side by sides to understand their pain points\n\nKnowledge and experience within the Financial Crime domain\n\nWe’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.\nAlso, 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.\nAnd 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.\nAdditional Information\nFor everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. 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