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Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

UK🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $115,000–$115,000🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a team of ML scientists to build and deploy advanced models for fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and customer risk assessment to protect Monzo and its customers from financial crime.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Machine Learning Scientist (Financial Crime)

Builds

Real-time ML models for fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and customer risk assessment

Domain

Fintech / Financial Crime / Fraud Prevention

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Advanced Machine Learning model development, Deep learning, Graph-based ML, Sequence-based ML, Python, SQL, Technical leadership, Cross-functional collaboration, MLOps integration

Preferred skills

Experience in regulated financial institutions, Microservices architecture

Technologies

Python, SQL, Go, Neural networks, Graph architectures, Sequence models

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of advanced real-time ML models for financial crime detection; Provide technical leadership to drive best practices across the ML discipline; Collaborate with stakeholders to scope impactful opportunities for ML in financial crime; Work with MLOps teams to optimize the full ML model lifecycle.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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