Senior Data Engineer — AML & Financial Crime

Cph Ai Hub; København; Hybrid; DKK 673,000 - 972,000; Full time

Job summary

Saxo is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the FCP Modelling & Development team at headquarters in Hellerup. You will build and maintain AML data products and data pipelines, ensuring security, lineage and robust production reliability.

The role emphasizes scalable, compliant systems and collaboration with AML SMEs across monitoring and risk rating initiatives. You will design and implement robust ETL interfaces, contribute to architecture decisions, and raise engineering standards through

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, software engineering, or related production data role.
• Strong Python, SQL and Spark; production pipelines and data models.
• Experience with Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Azure or similar.
• ML workflow support including feature data prep and reproducible datasets.
• CI/CD, containerized services and Kubernetes knowledge.
• Security: authentication, data access controls, encryption; Azure patterns.
• Production data pipelines, data quality, lineage, monitoring and governance.
• Financial crime prevention in regulated financial services incl. AML/KYC.
• GDPR-sensitive data handling, regulator reporting, or data governance.
• Nice to have: GX, dbt-expectations, Soda, Deequ, Microsoft Fabric.
• Clear English communication with tech and non-tech stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve AML data products and data modelling components with ownership and documentation.
• Design ETL pipelines and interfaces for operational, analytical and external-use cases.
• Translate requirements into durable production systems and influence architecture decisions.
• Partner with FCP/AML SMEs on monitoring, segmentation, risk rating and surveillance support.
• Define automated checks for completeness, validity, reconciliation and governance.
• Own observability, incident response, backfills, runbooks and production resilience.
• Raise engineering standards via code reviews, mentoring, and secure CI/CD practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

English

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Snowflake

Airflow

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Saxo is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the FCP Modelling & Development team at headquarters in Hellerup. You will build and maintain AML data products and data pipelines, ensuring security, lineage and robust production reliability.

The role emphasizes scalable, compliant systems and collaboration with AML SMEs across monitoring and risk rating initiatives. You will design and implement robust ETL interfaces, contribute to architecture decisions, and raise engineering standards through