CareerPlan

Senior ML Engineering Team Lead - Financial Crime

London, England, GBFull-time£135k–£175k2026-10-31 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Risk Modelling engineering pillar to build and scale ML systems for financial crime detection (fraud, money laundering) at global scale with strict latency SLAs.

Role type

Senior ML Engineering Team Lead (Financial Crime)

Builds

Automated model factory pipelines, experimentation engines, and model operations infrastructure for hundreds of models.

Domain

Fintech / Financial Crime / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML engineering leadership, model lifecycle automation, system-level ML architecture, high-throughput low-latency systems, team building and hiring, cross-platform partnership, deep learning, ML systems, production infrastructure

Preferred skills

Graph-based methods (GNNs), foundation model fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, transitioning classical ML to deep learning

Responsibilities

Architect declarative model deployment pipelines, establish experimentation paths from research to production, build automated retraining and drift detection infrastructure, recruit and mentor senior ML engineers, define cross-platform build vs consume decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities