Financial Crime - Technical Lead

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About the Role: As a Financial Crime Technical Lead you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Financial Crime project and data initiatives within the TSB Fin crime Data and TM migration program.

The role will lead to complex changes across Financial Crime data and Transaction Monitoring (TM) domains, ensuring that data, platforms and controls are migrated and implemented in line with regulatory expectations, Santander standards, and program milestones, while maintaining effective control coverage and integrity through migration and into BAU.

Responsibilities:

Financial Crime data migration (e.g. screening, TM, KYC, alerts, cases, regulatory reporting data)

Transaction Monitoring delivery (data feeds, models/scenarios, alerting, integration with case management and operations)

Domain Responsibilities

Depending on project needs, the Financial Crime Technical Lead may be asked to focus on one or more of the following areas and be able to pivot to new priorities and navigate uncertainty giving the large scale of the Program. Candidates are expected to bring strong capability in at least one, and ideally across both:

Lead the migration and integration of Financial Crime Data such as screening, transaction monitoring, KYC, alerts, cases and regulatory reporting data and support the migration of this historical data into Standard source systems.

Define and oversee source-to-target mapping, transformation, validation, cleansing, reconciliation and certification to ensure Data quality, completeness and regulatory compliance.

Work with architects and data engineers to ensure alignment with Santander's data architecture, data analytics teams and standards and controls, including data lineage, traceability and auditability.

Lead the delivery and/or migration of Transaction Monitoring capabilities, including Extracting, Transforming and Loading Data feeds, review the implementation of the TM processes for Detection and Alert Generation.

Ensure that TM designs and implementations meet regulatory expectations, internal risk appetite and operational requirements.

Oversee end-to-end TM processes for Theta Ray, from data ingestion and scenario execution through to alert handling, escalation and case management.

Collaborate with TM operations, model owners and validation teams to ensure appropriate coverage, thresholds, tuning and effectiveness throughout and after migration.

MANDATORY SKILLS

Proven 5+ years of experience leading technology and/or data delivery within Financial Crime or closely related domains in Financial Services.

Strong understanding of Financial Crime controls and data pipelines and ELT mechanisms, ideally including some combination of:

• Transaction Monitoring (TM)
• Screening / Sanctions
• KYC / Customer Due Diligence
• Alerts, cases, and regulatory reporting
• Demonstrable track record of end-to-end delivery across the full IT Delivery projects (requirements, design, build/configuration, testing, implementation, and transition to BAU), operating in Agile and/or Waterfall environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills in English, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, architecture and governance forums.
• Experience managing complex change with multiple teams, dependencies and vendors in a regulated environment.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Experience of bank migrations, separations or large regulatory change programs or large-scale Migration programs.
• For candidates with a data-oriented profile:
• Strong background in data migration and data integration (mapping, transformation, reconciliation, data quality).
• Familiarity with Financial Crime data platforms, data models and data governance.
• For candidates with a TM oriented profile:
• Hands on experience with Transaction Monitoring engines and case management platforms.
• Understanding of TM scenarios/models, threshold/tuning, coverage assessment and operational processes.

Required Skills:

• English: C1 Level Fluency

Why Us

• Permanent contract
• Remote work model (Candidate must be based in Portugal)
• Competitive salary
• Private health and life insurance from day one in the company
• Meal allowance on card/voucher

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

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