Data Scientist - Financial Crime

HSBC Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Technical Delivery Lead to drive production-grade AI and Agentic AI solutions for financial crime risk detection and investigations. You will lead cross-functional delivery, influence design decisions, and ensure compliant, timely releases in a regulated banking context.

Join HSBC’s Financial Crime Risk team to shape AI-driven investigations, collaborate across engineering, ML, product, and security, and deliver measurable outcomes with robust production support.

Qualifications

• Delivery leadership for complex technology initiatives in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI and Agentic AI solutions for financial crime risk detection and investigation.
• Contribute to solution design and build where needed, including LLM/agent workflow design, API/service integration, and evaluation harnesses.
• Drive execution across engineering, ML engineering/data science, product, operations, compliance, model risk, architecture, cyber security, and technology controls.
• Create clear decision packs with options and trade-offs across risk, cost, time, and value, and steer stakeholders to timely decisions.
• Manage releases through build, test, deployment, and hypercare, while tracking benefits and outcomes.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Financial Crime domain experience

AI production delivery

Python

JVM

REST/gRPC APIs

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL

Data integration

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

JVM

Python

REST

gRPC

CI/CD

SQL

Microservices

LLM

API

Job description

Salary: £40,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven delivery leadership for complex technology initiatives in regulated environments
• Financial Crime Risk domain experience (AML/sanctions/fraud/investigations) with evidence of operational adoption
• Hands-on experience delivering AI solutions to production (GenAI/LLM and/or agentic patterns) with measurable operational outcomes
• Strong technical grounding in several of the following: Python and/or JVM languages, REST/gRPC APIs, microservices, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, release management, SQL and data integration patterns (batch/stream), data quality controls, LLM/agent patterns, observability and production support

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI and Agentic AI solutions for financial crime risk detection and investigation
• Contribute to solution design and build where needed, including LLM/agent workflow design, API/service integration, and evaluation harnesses
• Drive execution across engineering, ML engineering/data science, product, operations, compliance, model risk, architecture, cyber security, and technology controls
• Create clear decision packs with options and trade-offs across risk, cost, time, and value, and steer stakeholders to timely decisions
• Manage releases through build, test, deployment, and hypercare, while tracking benefits and outcomes

Technologies

• Agentic AI
• AI
• API
• CI/CD
• Support
• JVM
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Network
• Python
• REST
• SQL
• Security
• gRPC
• microservices
• RAG

More

We are HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network covering more than 50 countries and territories. We offer opportunities, support, and rewards to help you go further, along with tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package for UK employees, including private healthcare, enhanced maternity and adoption pay, support on returning to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and we take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader. In this role, you will join our Financial Crime Risk team as a Technical Delivery Lead, working on production-grade AI and Agentic AI solutions that support investigations and meet regulated-bank standards.

last updated 36 week of 2026