Lead AML AI SME (Google Cloud)

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience training, tuning, and optimising machine learning models
• Strong background in AML, transaction monitoring, financial crime, or fraud analytics
• Demonstrable experience running backtesting exercises and measuring model performance
• Strong technical capability with Python, SQL, BigQuery, and cloud-based machine learning environments
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language and educate stakeholders
• Proven experience working across business, risk, and technology functions to deliver AI-driven solutions

Responsibilities:

• Lead the tuning, optimisation, and configuration strategy for Google Cloud AML AI models
• Define and execute backtesting frameworks to validate model performance against legacy transaction monitoring approaches
• Establish alert thresholds and monitoring strategies that balance model effectiveness with operational capacity
• Educate and upskill business stakeholders on AI outputs, model explainability, risk scoring, and governance principles
• Partner with AML Operations, Compliance, Model Risk, and Engineering teams to align business objectives and technical delivery
• Drive model governance, validation, documentation, and regulatory readiness activities

Technologies:

• AI
• BigQuery
• Cloud
• Machine Learning
• Python
• SQL
• DevOps

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We are AMS, a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies. Through our Contingent Workforce Solutions, we act as an extension of our clients recruitment teams and connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals. Our client is a major UK retail bank serving over 17 million retail customers across Business Services, Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail, and Investment Banking. We are hiring a Lead AML AI SME (Google Cloud) for a 6-month contract based in the UK, with 2 days per week in the office at any of the clients major hubs. This is a hands-on SME role focused on leading the adoption, optimisation, and governance of an AI-driven transaction monitoring solution, and the client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

last updated 33 week of 2026