Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

Monzo is a UK banking company focused on making money work for everyone through accessible financial products and services. The Lead Machine Learning Scientist will provide technical leadership and develop, deploy, and improve advanced machine learning solutions for financial crime and fraud detection, working closely with cross-functional product and machine learning teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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