AI MLOps Lead - Payments Engineering

Crisil
London
2 days ago
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Role Summary

We are looking for a techno-functional leader with deep experience in Payments domain and AI/ML solutions to design and implement intelligent, AI-enabled payment solutions. The role requires someone who can engage with business stakeholders, design AI-driven architectures, and also contribute hands-on to development and deployment, particularly in AI MLOps environments. This is not a pure data scientist role or a pure BA role but a design + build + deploy role within Payments transformation programs.


Key Responsibilities

1. Payments Domain & Functional Leadership

  • Work with stakeholders across Payments (Wire, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, Cards, Cross-border, Liquidity)
  • Identify AI-led automation and optimization opportunities in payments lifecycle
  • Translate regulatory, operational, and reconciliation challenges into AI solution use cases
  • Define business requirements and solution blueprints


2. AI Solution Design

  • Design AI/ML-driven solutions for:
  • Fraud detection & anomaly detection
  • Reconciliation automation
  • Payment routing optimization
  • Intelligent exception handling
  • AML pattern detection
  • Define model selection approach (ML, LLM, GenAI, rule-based hybrid models)
  • Design scalable, cloud-native AI architectures


3. Hands-on Development

  • Develop ML models / AI workflows using Python and relevant frameworks
  • Build APIs and integration layers for embedding AI into payments systems
  • Work with data pipelines (real-time + batch)
  • Implement data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation


4. AI MLOps & Deployment

  • Set up and manage ML lifecycle using MLOps frameworks
  • Implement:
  • Model versioning
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitoring & drift detection
  • Governance and audit controls
  • Ensure production-grade deployment with compliance considerations

5. Stakeholder & Delivery Management

  • Interface with product teams, risk teams, operations, and engineering
  • Lead POCs and scale into production
  • Support proposal creation and AI solution articulation for clients


Domain

  • 10+ years of experience in Banking/FinTech
  • Strong Payments domain exposure (SWIFT, ISO 20022, Cards, Wire, ACH, Cross-border, Treasury flows)
  • Understanding of regulatory and compliance implications in payments
  • Experience working in payments transformation programs


Technical

  • Strong Python skills
  • Experience with ML libraries (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost, etc.)
  • Experience with LLMs / GenAI frameworks (LangChain, RAG, prompt engineering, etc.)
  • Experience in cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
  • Experience in MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Azure ML, etc.)
  • API development experience


Techno-Functional Capabilities

  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical AI designs
  • Strong solution architecture capability
  • Experience designing and deploying AI solutions end-to-end


Good to Have

  • • Fraud / AML AI implementation experience
  • • Real-time payments exposure
  • • Knowledge of DevOps practices

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