Financial Crimes Risk Senior Data Analyst/Data Scientist

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.