Application Deadline: 31 October 2024

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Belfast

Description

Napier is a new breed of financial crime compliance technology specialist. Our AI enhanced platform – Napier Continuum – transforms compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.

At Napier, our mission is to fight financial crime through automation & AI. We believe that by automating the detection and prevention of financial crime, we can make the world a safer place for everyone.

Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.

After successfully securing a £45million investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are currently building out our Tech Hub in Belfast - this is a super exciting time to join Napier in Belfast as we expand.

You will already be an experienced data scientist, with a STEM background who has created novel AI solutions to complex problems. You will have experience in Python development / prototyping including pandas, numpy, sklearn, tensorflow, pytorch, pyspark and you will have engaged with clients to understand their data and requirements. In addition, you will have an in-depth understanding of Machine learning (supervised and unsupervised learning, classification, clustering) and explainability techniques.

What You'll Be Doing

Working with the Chief Data Scientist, data science team, other teams within Napier and Clients, you will install and tune existing AML models and develop new ones (supervised and unsupervised) to solve emerging problems in the anti-money laundering landscape.

Collaborating with clients, you will help them to improve efficiencies in their compliance processes, reduce false positives and false negatives in their risk identification processes by analysing their data and highlighting risks from automated analysis.
You will also build prototypes aimed at ingesting clients’ data and running machine learning models.
You will actively work with product and development teams to continuously build Napier’s platform.

Do you have what it takes?

Python experience (at least 5 years)
Understanding of the statistical underpinnings of data science
Experience in data analytics, manipulation, and transformation (e.g. pandas, pyspark. Etc.)
Develop machine learning algorithms (supervised, unsupervised, clustering, etc.) to score data to identify patterns within an IDE
Ability to produce production ready code deployed in containers (docker) in collaboration with a team
Experience with PostGreSQL and efficient computation
Experience in one or more of time series modelling, graph knowledge base models, named entity recognition, RAG,
Ability to express complex ideas to a non-data audience
Knowledge and experience in Rust would be beneficial
Experience with Google Vertex would be beneficial

Why Napier?

Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer the below benefits to all Naperians

Group life assurance policy
Income protections policy
Access to our employee wellbeing programme
An extra day off to celebrate your birthday
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you
Private health and dental insurance

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