Lead, Financial Crime Data Science & Data Engineering

Job Description

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We are seeking a hands-on, execution-focused Lead of Financial Crime Data Science & Data Engineering to build and advance the capabilities that power our transaction monitoring program and help shape the future of global commerce.

What You’ll Own

Detection Strategy & Performance
• Own detection logic performance (rule-based and model-driven), ensuring effectiveness across fraud, credit, and AML monitoring.
• Define and refine detection strategies based on emerging fraud typologies, regulatory requirements, and operational outcomes.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics (precision, recall, false positives, alert quality), driving measurable improvements.
• Influence tradeoff decisions between detection coverage, false positives, and operational cost, aligned to risk appetite.

Data Science & Detection Logic Development
• Lead the development, validation, and deployment of detection logic (rule-based and model-driven), ensuring delivery through data science and ML engineering teams.
• Direct analytical efforts to identify emerging fraud patterns and translate insights into implemented detection logic improvements.
• Ensure detection approaches balance statistical rigor, explainability, and operational usability.
• Support the detection logic lifecycle, including monitoring, retraining, and performance optimization.

Data Engineering & Pipeline Enablement
• Lead the design and ensure delivery of scalable batch and real-time data pipelines supporting detection logic and analytics.
• Define and enforce standards for data quality, validation, lineage, and pipeline reliability.
• Ensure data engineering capabilities support detection performance, regulatory reporting, and model lifecycle requirements.
• Partner with platform and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure aligned with detection logic needs.
• Drive execution discipline across data engineering workstreams, ensuring clear ownership, timelines, and delivery accountability.

Detection Logic Lifecycle Execution (Rules + Models)
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle for detection logic (rule-based controls and model-driven signals), including design, prioritization, testing, deployment, and optimization.
• Ensure implementation is delivered through structured processes with clear ownership, controls, and timelines.
• Drive continuous refinement of detection logic using performance data, investigation outcomes, and emerging risk signals.
• Maintain alignment between detection logic and operational workflows.

Governance & Regulatory Alignment
• Define and ensure adherence to governance standards for detection logic, including documentation, validation, and change management.
• Support compliance with regulatory expectations (BSA/AML, OFAC, FinCEN, SR 11-7).
• Partner with Model Risk Management, Compliance, and Internal Audit to support validation and regulatory reviews.
• Ensure detection approaches meet explainability and auditability standards required for regulatory scrutiny.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence
• Serve as the primary technical partner to Fraud Operations, Compliance, and Technology teams.
• Translate regulatory and operational requirements into detection logic, data priorities, and execution plans.
• Drive alignment across teams to enable effective implementation of detection capabilities.
• Influence upstream decisions in data, product, and platform domains that impact detection performance.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead and develop a team of data scientists, data engineers, and ML engineers.

• Establish clear priorities, performance expectations, and accountability for delivery.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship while enabling team members to own execution.

• Build and strengthen capabilities across detection modeling, data engineering, and analytics.

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or data engineering.
• Proven experience leading teams in fraud detection, AML transaction monitoring, or credit risk.
• Demonstrated experience delivering detection logic (rule-based and model-driven) in production environments.
• Experience working in regulated financial services or fintech environments preferred.
• Exposure to model risk management frameworks (e.g., SR 11-7) and regulatory interactions.

It’s a bonus if you have

• Payments experience
• Masters degree or higher in Data Science or Data Engineering

About the team 

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry,

who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders. 

What makes a Globalpayer? 

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative –

always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion

that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.  

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EEOC Statement

Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.