Financial Crime & Transaction Monitoring Data Technical Lead

About the role

BABEL is seeking a Financial Crime Technical Lead to drive a transformation program focused on data migration and transaction monitoring. You will own end‑to‑end technical initiatives, ensuring data quality, traceability and regulatory compliance throughout the migration and ongoing operations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead migration and integration of financial crime data such as screening, KYC, alerts, cases and regulatory information.
• Define and supervise source‑to‑target mapping, transformation, validation, cleaning, reconciliation and certification processes.
• Guarantee completeness, auditability and traceability of migrated data.
• Collaborate with architecture, data engineering, analytics and business teams to align with client standards.
• Deliver Transaction Monitoring capabilities, including data feeds, scenario/model development, alert generation and case‑management integration.
• Oversee end‑to‑end processes in tools like ThetaRay, from data ingestion to alert escalation and case handling.
• Work with operations, model owners and validation teams to maintain coverage, thresholds, tuning and model effectiveness during and after migration.

Required profile

• Strong technical and functional experience in financial crime environments.
• Proven track record in data‑centric projects, migrations or transaction monitoring implementations.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams and manage complex data pipelines.

Required skills

• ThetaRay
• Data migration and integration
• Source‑to‑target mapping
• Data validation, cleaning, reconciliation and certification
• Transaction Monitoring
• KYC and screening processes
• Alert generation and case management