Technical Systems Analyst – Financial Crime Technology
Permanent | Hybrid | £80,000 - £90,000
Overview
Opportunity to join a leading bank's fight against financial crime through advanced technological solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse business requirements and translate them into technical strategies that strengthen the compliance posture of a major financial institution.
Role & Responsibilities
- Analyse, design, and implement enhancements for complex financial crime and surveillance platforms — transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and market surveillance systems
- Hands-on development, configuration, and scripting using Python, PowerShell, .NET, and Power BI to deliver scalable technical solutions
- Translate complex business needs into clear technical specifications, ensuring solutions are robust, compliant, and future-proof
- Conduct root cause analysis on system issues and design preventative controls to mitigate risk
- Act as key technology contact during internal/external audits — providing evidence of controls, documentation, data extracts, reconciliations, and supporting remediation
- Collaborate with Compliance, Operations, and Risk teams as liaison between business users and technology
- Provide SME input on financial crime systems architecture and data flows
- Analyse large datasets for anomalies or control gaps, maintaining data integrity across surveillance/reporting systems
- Support model validation, including tuning ML models to enhance detection capabilities
- Participate in change management — system upgrades, patching cycles (SIT/UAT), implementations, documentation, version control
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrable experience analysing complex systems within regulated banking environments, with a focus on financial crime prevention or surveillance technologies
- Python and PowerShell for automation; experience with .NET and Power BI for data processing/integration
- Strong data engineering background — Snowflake, advanced SQL, MongoDB (NoSQL), SSIS
- Practical knowledge of Apache Kafka; exposure to Kubernetes for cloud deployments
- Hands-on GitHub usage — branching strategies, release management
- Agile/Scrum delivery experience with JIRA/Confluence
- Exposure to AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and model lifecycle management — beneficial
- Experience with transaction monitoring (e.g. Actimize), sanctions screening (e.g. Fircosoft), or market/trade surveillance platforms — beneficial but not essential
- Excellent communication skills — able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Proactive, organised, able to manage large workloads under tight deadlines
Details
- Permanent role
- Hybrid working
- £80,000 - £90,000
Technical Systems Analyst in London employer: INTEC SELECT LIMITED Careers
As a leading global organisation, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. Our London-based team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid working model, competitive daily rates, and ample opportunities for professional growth within a technology-driven environment. Join us to be part of an Agile Scrum team where your contributions will directly impact the reliability and accuracy of our critical Commodity Trading and Risk Management platform.
Contact Details:
INTEC SELECT LIMITED Careers Recruitment Team
