Remote Sr. Data Scientist - Compliance Tech Job in UK Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Who you are

• 5+ years of industry experience in data science
• Data science experience in the financial industry
• A consistent track record of performing data analysis using Python and SQL
• Experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems
• Versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job
• The ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with containerization and deployments (docker kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD (Gitlab Argo Airflow)
• Familiarity with financial crime and market abuse typologies is a plus
• Experience with crypto/blockchains preferred

Desirables

• Versatility
• Willingness to learn
• Clear communication skills

What the job involves

• Partner with Compliance operations, Product, Engineering and other stakeholders to build descriptive and predictive models to identify anomalous activity
• Maintain, update, and enhance the transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring codebases
• Ensure that all activities meet model validation and audit requirements
• Design and build proof-of-concept models to test hypotheses and help with idea generation and refinement
• Develop unsupervised and supervised models to find anomalous and risky activity
• Use structured and unstructured data to enrich transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring metadata
• Develop anomaly detection, data quality checks, and data modeling tools to monitor key performance indicators to improve the efficiency of models

Application process

• This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline