Job summary
Devsinc is hiring a Senior Data Scientist (Compliance — Banking) in Riyadh to design, validate and deploy machine learning solutions for regulatory compliance and financial crime prevention. The role focuses on creating explainable, audit-ready models and working with compliance, risk and engineering teams.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop and monitor ML/statistical models for compliance and financial crime detection
- Build predictive and anomaly-detection models for AML, KYC, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring
- Ensure models meet governance, regulatory and model risk management standards
- Perform validation, performance testing, stability, bias and explainability analyses
- Produce and maintain audit-ready model documentation and validation reports
- Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Technology and Data Engineering teams on solutions
- Implement monitoring frameworks and performance dashboards with periodic reviews
- Support audits, regulatory examinations and independent validation activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science, Statistics, CS, Maths, Engineering, Finance or related
- 6–8+ years in data science or advanced analytics within banking/financial services
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Hands-on with scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
- Experience developing and validating classification, anomaly detection and risk models
- Solid understanding of model risk management and governance
- Knowledge of banking regulatory requirements and compliance controls
Skills
PythonSQLscikit-learnXGBoostPyTorchTensorFlowModel validationExplainable AIMLOpsBig data
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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