Data Scientist

As a member of the Economic Sanctions and Screening team, your primary responsibility will be to develop, enhance, and validate sanctions screening frameworks and models. You will play a crucial role in strengthening the firm's financial crime risk posture by ensuring that our screening capabilities are in line with global regulatory expectations and industry best practices. Your main duties will include evaluating existing sanctions models and proposing enhancements based on regulatory guidance and operational feedback. You will conduct regular reviews of sanctions screening models to ensure compliance with OFAC, EU, UN, and other regulatory standards. Additionally, you will support tuning and threshold analysis for match scoring, analyze screening outcomes to identify gaps and trends, and prepare comprehensive model documentation and validation reports. You will collaborate with compliance officers, technology teams, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, explain model logic, and support audits and regulatory reviews. Your expertise in sanctions screening framework development, tuning, and validation will be crucial, along with your familiarity with leading screening platforms and global sanctions regimes. Experience in integrating sanctions screening models with broader AML/CFT frameworks and exposure to AI/ML techniques will be beneficial for this role. To excel in this position, you should possess strong programming and scripting skills, experience in data modeling and large-scale dataset analysis, and the ability to conduct root cause analysis on alert quality issues. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential, allowing you to explain technical models to non-technical stakeholders and present recommendations clearly. This role requires a Bachelor's or Master's Degree and 2-10 years of relevant experience. The base location for this position is Chennai, and it may involve working at client locations as well.,