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Financial Crimes Risk Senior Data Analyst/Data Scientist

Rain Washington, DC

Washington, DC

2d ago

Full time Senior Data Analysis Data Analytics

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Job Description

rain is hiring a Senior Data Analyst/Data Scientist to strengthen its Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) function, working in support of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). In this role, you will help improve transaction monitoring, investigative analytics, and risk segmentation by tuning controls and translating requirements into scalable monitoring logic and technical controls. The position reports to the Director of Compliance Data & Analytics and involves close collaboration with FIU Investigations and Compliance leadership to enhance both effectiveness and scalability across the organization.

What you’ll do

Assist with tuning and optimizing transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, digital, and asset activity
Analyze alert, case, and transaction data to identify false positives, coverage gaps, and opportunities to improve detection quality
Assist with managing and optimizing financial crime vendor configurations, including thresholds, matching logic, rulesets, risk settings, and workflows
Support testing activities such as testing, backtesting, regression testing, and audits to confirm monitoring and screening controls work as intended
Translate investigative findings, emerging typologies, and regulatory requirements into scalable monitoring logic and technical controls
Help develop internal compliance tools, workflows, dashboards, and automations that improve FIU and Compliance operations
Partner with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to implement, validate, document, and continuously improve financial crime controls

What you bring

4–7+ years of experience in financial crimes analytics, compliance technology, fraud/risk analytics, or related roles within fintech, banking, payments, or digital assets
Advanced SQL and strong Python skills, including experience analyzing large transaction datasets and automating workflows
Hands-on experience tuning transaction monitoring rules, including thresholds, lookback periods, segmentation, exclusions, and behavioral indicators
Experience managing and optimizing financial crime vendor settings, including screening thresholds, matching logic, risk parameters, rulesets, and workflows
Experience testing and auditing transaction monitoring, KYC/KYB, sanctions, or screening controls using backtesting, regression testing, QA, and control effectiveness reviews
Ability to evaluate monitoring performance using metrics such as alert volumes, false-positive rates, escalation outcomes, precision/recall, and detection coverage
Strong understanding of AML/BSA, transaction monitoring, sanctions, and KYC/KYB, with capability to independently translate risk requirements into scalable technical controls
Hands-on experience with blockchain intelligence tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar platforms

Technologies

SQL, Python, Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic
BigQuery, Snowflake, Spark

Bonus attributes

Experience developing or deploying machine learning models for fraud, AML, transaction monitoring, anomaly detection, or customer risk
Experience with graph analytics, network analysis, entity resolution, or behavioral modeling across transaction and customer datasets
Experience building production-grade Python services, analytical pipelines, or detection frameworks beyond notebook-based analysis
Familiarity with feature engineering, model evaluation, threshold optimization, precision/recall analysis, and model monitoring
Experience working with large-scale data platforms and distributed processing frameworks such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Spark, or similar
On-chain analytics experience including blockchain tracing, wallet clustering, or combining digital asset and traditional payments data for financial crime detection
Experience translating investigative findings or emerging typologies into scalable detection logic, models, or automated controls

Benefits

Unlimited time off with a requirement that Rainmakers take 10 days minimum for themselves
Flexible working
New Rainmakers receive a stipend to create a comfortable atmosphere at home
For US Rainmakers: comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
100% company subsidized life insurance plan
401(k) with a 4% company match
Equity option plan
Rain Cards for testing core products and services
Health and Wellness spending via Rain Cards (gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture, etc.)
Team summits (domestic and international offsites)

Location: Washington, DC (onsite). Minimum experience: 4 years.

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