Data Engineer Detecting Financial Crime

at ABN AMRO

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

EUR 63,600-90,900 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Hybrid

🕙 36-40 hours per week

Tech Stack
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Details

Join ABN AMRO as an IT Engineer in the Financial Economic Crime (FEC) Transaction Monitoring domain. You will strengthen the reliability and security of in-house applications that help detect money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and other financial crime risks. You will collaborate with Compliance, Operations, Data, and Technology teams to improve transaction monitoring capabilities and detection effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Maintain and enhance platforms supporting the bank's financial crime detection processes.
Ensure the reliability and quality of transaction data flows.
Optimize detection scenarios and alert-generation mechanisms.
Support management information and regulatory reporting.
Collaborate across Agile DevOps teams, including product owners, business developers, IT leads, chapter leads, and IT engineers.
Engage with vendors and contribute to critical data flows and application improvements.
Communicate user-story progress and technical changes to business stakeholders.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer.
Strong hands-on experience with PySpark, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data Factory.
Experience with PL/SQL and relational databases.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD and automated deployments.
Familiarity with ITIL processes and IT service management.
English proficiency and strong communication skills.
A proactive and result-driven mindset.

Nice to Have

Knowledge of Financial Economic Crime, particularly transaction monitoring.
Knowledge of incident management and operations, such as ServiceNow.

Working Environment

The role is part of the Transaction Monitoring team within the Detecting Financial Crime Grid in the IT Value cluster. The team follows an Agile/Scrum and DevOps way of working and operates in an international, inclusive environment with English as the primary language. Hybrid working is the standard, with employees generally working remotely and going to the office approximately twice a week. The position is based in Amsterdam Bijlmer.

Benefits

Gross monthly salary of €5,304–€7,577 based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget.
Excellent pension scheme.
Hybrid working and an ergonomic home-office setup.
Five weeks of vacation, two mandatory days off, and the option to purchase up to four additional weeks annually.
Five additional “Banking for better days” for personal development or volunteer work.
Development budget of €1,000 per year, accumulating up to €3,000.
Annual public transport pass providing free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for business and private use.