Senior Data & Ai Engineer Financial Crime

Johannesburg, GP, ZA, South Africa

Job Description

About TymeX



TymeX

is

Tyme Group

's Technology & Product Development Hub with a global mission to become serial bank builders.


Our

Financial Crime

platform plays a critical role in protecting customers and the bank from fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes using advanced data, analytics, AI, and automation.

About the Role




We're looking for a

Senior Data & AI Engineer

to join our Financial Crime team. You'll be part of the group responsible for building and maintaining high-performance data pipelines that drive fraud detection, entity resolution, and compliance analytics across Tyme's ecosystem.


You'll work with large, complex datasets in

Databricks

, integrate data from multiple systems in real time and batch, and help design the data foundation for real-time risk detection and case management.

Key Responsibilities:



Build and optimize data ingestion pipelines using Python and PySpark to collect and transform data from multiple sources (transactions, KYC, AML, authentication, devices, logs, etc.).

Proficiency in SQL (PostGres preferred)

Design and maintain data model that support Financial Crime/Fraud detection, profiling, and entity resolution.

Implement data quality checks and ensur

e data reliability across environments.

Collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Compliance, Operations and our Product/Feature teams to operationalize models and rules.

Utilize jobs, workflows, APIs and streaming to manage large-scale data processing workloads. Integrate with external systems (e.g. sanctions, ID&V, biometrics and authentication systems) to enrich risk and identity data. Support

automation and monitoring

of ETL processes to improve operational efficiency.

Requirements



Must-Have:



+ Bachelor's degree. +

5+ years of experience

+

Strong skills in Python, PySpark, Scala and Advanced SQL (preferably PostGres)

+

Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric or similar

+

Experience working with structured and unstructured data in a production environment.

+

Experience with Agentic AI, MLFlow, ML models, Eval

+

Secure Coding practices - testing/QA

+

Comfortable with cloud-based data platforms (preferably AWS).

+

Good communication skills in English -- able to collaborate with cross-functional teams in an international environment.

+

Proficiency in working with Text, Delta, Parquet, JSON, CSV, and XML data formats.

+

Working knowledge of Spark structured streaming.

+

AWS infrastructure experience, specifically working with S3.

+

Solid understanding of git-based version control, DevOps, and CI/CD.

+

Experience of working on Atlassian stack a plus.

+

Knowledge of common web API frameworks and web services.

+ Strong teamwork, relationship, and client management skills, and the ability to influence peers and senior management to accomplish team goals. + Willingness to embrace modern technology, best practice, and ways of work.

Nice to Have:

+ Experience in

Financial Crime/AML, KYC,

or

fraud detection

systems. + Familiarity with

Entity Resolution frameworks

(e.g., Quantexa, Sensing, open source Entity Resolution tools). + Experience with

data streaming frameworks

(Kafka, Spark Streaming, MQ).

Benefits



Be part of a

mission-driven

team tackling real-world financial crime problems. Work with

modern data tech stack

with Agentic AI and advanced ML.

Hybrid working model

with flexible hours. International and collaborative culture -- working with colleagues across

Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines and South Africa

. * Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and learning support.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1611726
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Johannesburg, GP, ZA, South Africa
  • Education
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