Solutions for Banking & Financial Services

Financial Crime Technology Teams for Work That Gets Examined Afterwards

We staff banks, payments firms, fintechs and consultancies across AML, KYC, fraud and compliance technology. The engineers we send can configure the platform and defend the decision to compliance, audit or a regulator — because on these programmes one without the other is not much use.

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Detection, tuning, case management, data and platform. Contract, contract-to-hire, dedicated pods and full project teams.

Where Banks Bring Us In

Live demand

Platforms: NICE Actimize, SAS financial crime, other vendor tooling and in-house rules engines
Programmes: Implementations, upgrades, tuning cycles, remediation after a finding, case management migration, regulatory reporting
Who we work with: Retail and commercial banks, payments firms, card issuers, fintechs and consultancies
Engagement: Contract · Contract-to-hire · Dedicated team · Project pod
Working models: Onsite, hybrid, offshore, or blended with your existing squad

Send us a JD or a rough outline —start a requirement.

Coverage

AML
KYC
Fraud
Screening
Case management
Regulatory reporting

Why Financial Crime Hiring Is Different

Being Right Counts for Less Than Being Able to Prove It

In most technology work, a change that behaves correctly is finished. Here it is barely started. A threshold move, a new scenario, a rule retirement — each one has to be documented, evidenced and explainable to people who were not in the room, sometimes years later. That constraint shapes who is actually useful on these programmes.

It also splits the market. Plenty of engineers can configure a platform; plenty of analysts understand typologies and regulatory expectation. Far fewer do both well, and briefs rarely specify which they need. So we ask first, screen the two separately, and tell you which side a profile is lighter on rather than averaging it into one impression.

All Expertise

Configuration Without Compliance LiteracyAn engineer who cannot explain a tuning decision to a compliance officer will not get change through model governance.
Policy Knowledge Without DeliveryAdvising on a target state is not the same as configuring, tuning and living with the result.
Data Layer Treated as Someone Else’s JobA large share of detection failures start upstream in feeds, mappings and completeness rather than in the rules.
Operational Capacity IgnoredDetection that triples the alert queue is a failure however correct it is. Investigator capacity has to be part of the design.
Fixed External DeadlinesRegulatory dates do not move for hiring difficulty. Late briefs narrow the realistic pool sharply, and we will say so on the call.

Where We Help

The Banking Programmes We Staff

Most briefs arrive as one of these. Tell us which and the team shape follows.

Tuning & Optimisation Cycles

Most Requested

Above and below-the-line testing, segmentation review and the evidence pack model governance expects.

Remediation After a Finding

Regulator or audit-driven work with a fixed date, a defined scope and a lot of documentation.

Platform Implementation

New detection, screening or case management rollouts, including the model governance path.

Upgrades & Cloud Moves

Version upgrades and SaaS migrations where detection output has to be proven unchanged.

New Payment Rail or Product

Extending fraud and AML coverage to a new channel, rail or product before it goes live.

Case Management Migration

Moving investigators onto a new case platform without losing history or throughput.

Regulatory Reporting & Surveillance

Returns, submissions, surveillance calibration and the controls that prove completeness.

Data, Lineage & Run Support

Feeds, completeness controls, lineage, and the standing capacity to keep detection healthy.

Who We Staff

The Financial Crime Capability Grid

Requirements get mapped against this grid before we send anyone, so you can see depth by area instead of reading it out of a CV.

Vendor PlatformsWhere platform experience is essential

DisciplinesWhere judgement transfers between platforms

Detection & TuningThe part that gets reviewed

Onboarding & ScreeningCustomer-facing controls

Fraud & Real-TimeA different constraint entirely

Data, Case & DeliveryWhat makes any of it work

Engagement

Four Ways to Bring People On

Compare all models

Project Team Staffing

A full pod for a scoped programme — lead, engineers, data, validation and BA.

Common shape for a regulatory deadlineDetails

Contract Staffing

Named specialists for a defined period — a tuning cycle, a rail launch, audit response.

A known gap with a known end dateDetails

Dedicated Technology Teams

A standing pod that owns detection change, tuning cycles and the data underneath.

Detection change never really stopsDetails

Contract-to-Hire

Work together first, convert to permanent once the fit with compliance is proven.

Building permanent capability in-houseDetails

How We Get to a Shortlist

Screening, in the Order It Happens

Four steps, and you hear from us at each one.

1
Requirement Intake
Which platform and discipline, whether vendor experience is essential, the deadline, and who signs off model change.
2
Specialist Screening
A financial-crime-experienced reviewer probes real decisions: detection owned, tuning defended, data issues found.
3
Shortlist With Notes
Profiles arrive with platform depth and compliance literacy rated separately, plus notice period and rate.
4
Interview and Onboard
We coordinate panels, handle paperwork and stay involved through the first weeks on your estate.

Team Shapes

How These Programmes Are Usually Staffed

Starting points rather than fixed packages — each one gets sized against your brief.

Remediation Pod

Fixed regulatory date · evidence-heavy

Programme lead who knows the model governance path
Detection or configuration specialists for gap closure
Tuning analyst producing the evidence
Data engineer on feeds and completeness
Test lead owning assurance and sign-off

Tuning & Optimisation Pod

Alert volume reduction · analytical

Tuning analyst owning above and below-the-line work
Segmentation analyst refreshing peer groups
Configuration specialist to apply the change
Data engineer verifying completeness first
Validation support for governance sign-off

Upgrade or Migration Pod

Version currency · parallel run

Upgrade or migration lead
Platform engineers for remediation and retrofit
Data migration engineer for historic alerts and cases
Environments and release cover
Test lead proving detection output did not drift

Team compositions are illustrative starting points, not fixed packages. Actual shape, rates and availability are agreed against a specific requirement.

Before You Send a Brief

Questions We Get Asked

Should we brief a platform or a discipline?

If the work is platform-critical — an upgrade, a tight deadline, an undocumented estate — brief the platform. If the value is in typology and tuning judgement, briefing the discipline opens a wider pool. On the intake call we help you decide, and we will tell you what ramp-up on your stack realistically costs.

Can you provide a whole team rather than individuals?

Yes, and for remediation and upgrade programmes that is the usual shape — see project team staffing. The team shapes above are the common starting points.

Our deadline is set by a regulator. How do you handle that?

By being straight about the market. We will tell you what is realistically available in your window and which roles are the binding constraint, so the plan is built on real availability rather than an assumption about it.

Do you staff investigation and operations headcount?

No. We staff the technology side — detection, tuning, data, case configuration and delivery. Volume investigation and file review headcount is a different market, and we would rather say so than take the brief on speculatively.

Do you cover fraud as well as AML?

Yes, but as distinct disciplines. Real-time decisioning under a latency budget is a different skill from batch monitoring with a review window, and we do not present one as the other. See fraud and transaction monitoring talent.

What do you need from us to start?

A JD if you have one. If not: platform and discipline, deployment model, the programme driver and deadline, whether the role is domain or engineering-led, seniority, engagement type and location expectations.

Request Talent

Tell Us Which Roles You Need to Fill

Send a JD or a two-line outline. We come back with the team shape that fits, what the market looks like for those roles, and a shortlist against your requirement.

For Hiring Teams

Send the platform or discipline, the driver and the deadline.