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We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the FCP Modelling & Development team.\nFCP Modelling & Development is part of the 1st Line of Defence in Group Operations and is located in Saxo's headquarters in Hellerup. The team works with models and data-based automated processes used across FCP. The goal is to ensure that these data assets and processes are sound, fit for purpose, adequately documented, secure, and regularly reviewed.\nResponsibilities\nBuild, operate, and continuously improve reusable AML data products, data-modelling components, and user-facing interfaces, with clear ownership, lineage, documentation, quality controls, and production reliability.\nDesign robust ETL pipelines and integration interfaces for operational, analytical, model-development, and external-platform use cases, enabling secure and efficient data exchange across internal and external systems.\nTranslate FCP and AML requirements into durable, adaptable production systems, contributing to solution architecture decisions on design patterns, system scalability, regulatory compliance, and flexibility across AML processes.\nPartner with FCP and AML subject-matter experts on transaction monitoring, customer segmentation, scenario development, client risk rating, surveillance support, and AML-related development initiatives that strengthen financial crime prevention capabilities.\nDefine automated checks for completeness, consistency, validity, reconciliation, source-to-target integrity, architectural integrity, security, performance, and governance standards.\nOwn observability, alerting, incident response, backfills, runbooks, performance tuning, production support, and operational resilience for critical data assets.\nRaise engineering standards through design and code reviews, mentoring, reusable patterns, clean and well-documented code, test-driven development, secure coding practices, CI/CD pipeline optimization, automated testing, and continuous improvement.\nWhat you bring\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related production data role.\nStrong Python, SQL, and Spark skills, with experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and data models.\nPractical experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Azure, or similar technologies.\nExperience supporting ML workflows, including feature engineering, feature data preparation, dataset versioning, reproducible training and validation datasets, model-validation support, and production-ready model inputs.\nDeployment skills for production workloads, including CI/CD, containerized services, and Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.\nStrong understanding of authentication, authorization, data access controls, encryption, secure handling of sensitive data, and practical data-security patterns using Azure services such as Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Azure RBAC, and Managed Identities.\nHands-on experience maintaining production data pipelines, including data quality testing, reconciliation, lineage, metadata management, documentation, monitoring, and operational controls.\nExperience with financial crime prevention in regulated financial services, including AML, KYC/CDD/ODD, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, client risk rating, and market-abuse surveillance support.\nExperience with GDPR-sensitive data, audit evidence, regulator-facing reporting, or data governance in control-heavy environments.\nNice to have: experience with data quality validation tools e.g. Great Expectations (GX), dbt-expectations, Soda, Deequ, or Microsoft Fabric.\nClear communication in English with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nWe get curious people invested in the world\nWhen you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo - no matter which role you take on.\nYou will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 11 countries and become part of an international organisation. 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