Model Development Team Lead for Name List Screening (NLS) & Transaction Screening (TS) Model Strats

Job Title Model Development Team Lead for Name List Screening (NLS) & Transaction Screening (TS) - Model Strats

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (GCOO) which acts as the bridge between the Banks businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency control and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will work within the wider GSA Control Strats team and lead model development across NS and TS. This includes supporting incumbent models and designing building and deploying new state-of-the-art (SOTA) models. You will bring strong data science and modelling expertise a delivery-focused mindset and a structured detail-oriented approach to solving complex tasks. You will also drive model tuning contribute to regulatory and governance deliverables and collaborate with cross-functional teams including Anti-Financial Crime Operations and Technology.

You will work in a collaborative global team and focus on people development and career growth.

What well offer you

A healthy engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and more importantly enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. Thats why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme 2 days volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the model development team setting priorities standards and ways of working
• Understand and own end-to-end delivery of new SOTA challenger models
• Tuning and optimising strategies for incumbent models
• Design and govern the use of Large Language Models (LLM)-as-judge approaches within alert handling processes (evaluation framework quality controls bias/robustness testing and auditability)
• Document model logic assumptions limitations and test outcomes in line with Model Governance and validation standards
• Partner together with stakeholders to respond to internal audit queries and manage remediation actions and findings
  

Your skills and experience

• Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics Physics Engineering Computer Science)
• 7 years experience developing analytical or machine learning models in financial services (ideally Anti-Financial Crime / Screening)
• Experience building Natural Language Processing (NLP)/Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) pipelines including feature engineering model training evaluation and monitoring
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLM use cases (e.g. human-in-the-loop calibration guardrails auditability)
• Experience with hyperparameter tuning at scale and experimentation frameworks
• Strong technical experience with SQL and Python; significant experience with Spark for large-scale data processing
• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrable collaborative leadership capabilities (coaching mentoring guiding delivery ownership and stakeholder engagement) and strong standards for documentation and controls in a regulated environment

How well support you

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities employer we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers assistive hearing devices adapted keyboards)

About us

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Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be namedin The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has beenawarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in theirTop 100 Employers.

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