Data Scientist - Financial Crime

HSBC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for UK employees

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to drive end-to-end, production-grade AI solutions for Financial Crime Risk in the UK. You’ll oversee governance, LLM/agent workflows, and integration into investigator tools within a regulated banking framework.

This role requires hands-on delivery in GenAI/LLM contexts, strong technical grounding, and collaboration across engineering, product, operations, and compliance to ensure timely, safe deployments and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery leadership for complex technology initiatives in regulated environments.
• Experience delivering AI/GenAI solutions to production with measurable outcomes.
• Strong background in risk domains (AML/sanctions/fraud/investigations) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI and agentic solutions for financial crime risk detection.
• Contribute to solution design including LLM/agent workflow design and API integration.
• Coordinate across engineering, ML, product, operations, compliance, and security to enable timely decisions.
• Manage releases through build, test, deployment and hypercare with benefit tracking.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulated environment experience

Problem solving

Tools

Python

JVM languages

REST/gRPC APIs

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL

Data integration

Observability tools

Job description

If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

We're one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We're currently seeking an experienced professional to join our Financial Crime Risk team in the role of Technical Delivery Lead.

You'll deliver leadership and hands-on Agentic AI engineering in Financial Crime Risk - driving end-to-end, production-grade AI solutions from governance and senior decision-making through to LLM/agent workflow design, evaluation, observability, and hypercare, ensuring solutions are adopted in investigations and meet regulated-bank standards.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you'll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you'll:

• 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 (tool use, orchestration, guardrails, human-in-the-loop patterns)
  • API/service integration into alerting, case management, and investigator workflows
  • Evaluation harnesses (golden datasets, regression tests, red-teaming scenarios, offline metrics)
• Drive execution across engineering, ML engineering/data science, product, operations, compliance, model risk, architecture, cyber security, and technology controls
• Create clear decision packs (options and trade-offs across risk/cost/time/value) and steer stakeholders to timely decisions
• Manage releases through build, test, deployment, and hypercare (track benefits and outcomes)

To be successful in this role you should meet the following 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:
  • 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: prompt/version management, tool/function calling, RAG, safety guardrails
  • Observability and production support (logging/metrics/tracing, incident triage)

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we're dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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