Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

ABOUT THE ROLE We're on a mission to make money work for everyone at Monzo, a leading digital bank in the UK. As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist, you'll play a crucial role in building and iterating on our financial crime defensive capabilities to ensure the safety of our customers and the company. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a technical individual contributor, you'll be providing technical leadership and shipping highly impactful ML-based solutions to detect and prevent financial crime. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the organization to identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities to tackle financial crime and fraud with Machine Learning. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading the design and development of advanced real-time Machine Learning models to improve detection of financial crime - Providing technical leadership to drive up levels of technical expertise and best practice across the Machine Learning discipline - 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 - Collaborating with a cross-functional product squad, including product managers, data scientists, backend engineers, and designers in an agile environment WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you'll need: - A 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 - A strong command of SQL and extensive experience writing production Python code - A self-starter mindset, with the ability to proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so - A deep understanding of financial crime and fraud, and a passion for using data-driven strategies to reduce financial crime and protect customers WHY REMOTE As a remote worker at Monzo, you'll have the flexibility to work from anywhere in the UK, while still being part of a dynamic and fast-paced team. You'll have the opportunity to work on complex and impactful projects, and to make a real difference in the lives of our customers. BENEFITS As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist at Monzo, you'll receive a competitive salary of £115,000 - £150,000, plus incentive awards tied to your performance. You'll also be eligible for a range of benefits, including [insert benefits as per original description].