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About the Role

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 Wise's licenses. Your work will allow Wise to keep customers safe and ensure the ecosystem is free of bad actors in a scalable way, directly impacting Wise's mission and millions of customers.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Building a team of high performing specialists
• 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

Requirements

• Experience implementing, training, testing and evaluating performance of Machine Learning systems
• Strong Python knowledge
• 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
• Familiarity with automating operational processes via technical solutions, for example Large Language Models
• Willingness to get hands dirty with operational side by sides to understand their pain points
• Knowledge and experience within the Financial Crime domain

Skills

• Machine Learning
• Python
• OOP principles
• Statistical analysis
• Experiment design
• Product mindset
• Independent work
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Cross-team collaboration
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Automating operational processes
• Large Language Models
• Financial Crime domain

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Lead

Salary/Compensations

• GBP 90500 - GBP 127000

About the Company

• Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
• Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
• Whether 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.
• As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
• For everyone, everywhere.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.