Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime
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Job description
Lead Machine Learning Scientist at Monzo's Financial Crime Data team, a technical individual contributor leadership role building and deploying advanced ML models to detect fraud and financial crime.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Pay
- GBP 115,000 – 150,000 / year
What you'll do
- Working with stakeholders across the organization to identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities to tackle Financial Crime and Fraud with Machine Learning
- Leading the design and development of advanced real time Machine Learning models, for example exploring how neural network, graph-based, and sequence-based architectures can drive improvements in detection of financial crime
- Providing technical leadership to drive up levels of technical expertise and best practice across the Machine Learning discipline, leading by example and mentoring others
- Working closely with our MLOps team to steer the ongoing development of tools to enable rapid iteration of models and optimisations of the full ML model lifecycle
- Automatically and accurately detect suspicious user behaviours while minimising impact to genuine customers and operational costs
- Adapt quickly and appropriately to changing fraud and financial crime trends, ensuring our detection systems remain performant through time
What we're looking for
- Multiple year track record of excellence leading the development and deployment of advanced Machine Learning models to tackle real business problems preferably in a fast moving tech company
- Experience developing and shipping deep learning, graph-based, and/or sequence-based ML architectures to production and delivering business impact
- Impact driven and excited to own the end to end journey that starts with a business problem and ends with your solution having a measurable impact in production
- Self-starter mindset; proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
- Extensive experience writing production Python code and a strong command of SQL
- Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and experience helping your team and stakeholders resolve that ambiguity
- Product mindset: care about customer outcomes and want to make data-informed decisions
- Excited about fast-moving developments in Machine Learning and can communicate those ideas to colleagues who are not familiar with the domain
- Adaptable, curious and enjoy learning new technologies and ideas
Nice to have
- Experience working with financial crime and in regulated institutions
- Commercial experience writing critical production code and working with microservices
Your team
Machine Learning FinCrime Team
Financial Crime Data team consists of over 25 people across 4 data specialisms: Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, Machine Learning Scientists and Data Scientists.
Benefits
This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
- We can help you relocate to the UK
- We can sponsor visas
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for training courses and conferences
- If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can
How to get hired
- 130 minute recruiter call
- 245 minute call with hiring manager
- 3Full Loop: ML Modelling Interview, Product & ML interview, Behavioural Interview, Leadership interview
Apply
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About Monzo
We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.
After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
Key facts
- Banking
- Our financial crime team has a large impact on Monzo's bottom line as fraud and scams are usually some of the largest cost line items in a bank's P&L
- Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us
- With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for ou