Senior AML & Transaction Monitoring Leader

Kraken; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken in the United Arab Emirates seeks a seasoned AML/FIU leader to optimize transaction monitoring, tune rules, and design new monitoring scenarios to boost detection quality while reducing false positives.

You will collaborate with Compliance leadership, Product, Engineering and Operations to enable scalable compliance controls, integrate vendor and regtech solutions, and advance AI/LLM-enabled tooling for alert triage and investigations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AML/financial crime compliance or FIU operations.
• 3+ years designing, testing and tuning transaction monitoring rules.
• 3+ years working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling.
• Experience in regulated financial institutions, ideally EU/UK/US.
• Experience driving process optimization or automation within compliance or financial crime.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data or Operations teams to implement monitoring controls or integrations.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with dashboards and data analysis.
• Experience in fintech/payments/crypto environments with scalable controls for new products and geographies.
• Experience with AI, ML or LLM-enabled compliance tools for investigations or alert triage.
• Familiar with blockchain analytics tools (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic) or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning and rollout of new monitoring scenarios to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
• Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies including AI-enabled tools to enhance alert triage investigations and SAR filing.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Operations to support vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure, and FIU tooling enhancements.
• Collaborate with Compliance leadership to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies for expansion into new products, regions and higher volumes.

Skills

AML / Financial crime

Transaction monitoring

Regulatory expectations

Rule design & tuning

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

AI / ML / LLM tools

Crypto analytics familiarity

Job description

Kraken in the United Arab Emirates seeks a seasoned AML/FIU leader to optimize transaction monitoring, tune rules, and design new monitoring scenarios to boost detection quality while reducing false positives.

You will collaborate with Compliance leadership, Product, Engineering and Operations to enable scalable compliance controls, integrate vendor and regtech solutions, and advance AI/LLM-enabled tooling for alert triage and investigations.