Data Science Engineer

Job Title Data Science Engineer

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Surveillance Technology represents the 1st line of defense responsible for delivering solutions that protect the bank’s financial and reputational interests from potentially criminal or inappropriate behavior.

You will work within the Anti-Fraud tribe responsible for protecting our clients from financial crime using the latest cutting-edge technology and domain expertise. You will partner daily with stakeholders and colleagues across regions and time zones, translating global risk priorities into scalable, consistent controls. Your ecosystem involves tens of millions of daily events and you will leverage cloud-native streaming and batch data processing, advanced analytics, and state-of-the-art ML to detect suspicious patterns in real time.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Analysing complex datasets and create clear, decision-ready dashboards and reporting
• Designing, training, and validating machine-learning models for fraud detection and surveillance use cases
• Implementing new business and regulatory requirements by enhancing data/ML pipelines end to end
• Partnering closely with business stakeholders to translate needs into robust data pipelines, statistical dashboards, and production-grade ML solutions
• Owning features from design through delivery, combining hands-on development with strong stakeholder management and clear communication
• Coordinating with and mentor junior team members and graduates, supporting their technical growth and delivery quality

Your skills and experience

• Hands-on Python 3 experience for production-grade data and ML systems
• Experience of advanced SQL for querying, modeling, and optimizing analytical datasets
• Cloud data engineering on Google Cloud Platform (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Cloud Run, GCS, GKE)
• End-to-end data & ML pipelines plus MLOps (Airflow; CI/CD; versioning, monitoring; Docker/Kubernetes)
• Applied ML across classic and deep learning stacks (e.g., scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch)
• Advanced analytics (Pandas/Polars/PySpark/NumPy), visualization (Matplotlib/Seaborn/Dash/Looker/Tableau), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink/Spark)
• Privacy- and governance-aware ML: GDPR/CCPA, ethical AI, explainability (XAI), and experimentation (A/B testing; MLflow/Kubeflow/W&B)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.