Start: asap
End: 31-12-2026
Possible extension: YES
Hours per week: 36
ZZP not possible
Job description
As a Junior Insights Data Scientist – Transaction Monitoring, you will deliver data-driven insights and build automated pipelines and workflows based on transaction data from over 8 million Rabobank customers. Your work enables colleagues to make better-informed decisions in identifying and preventing financial crime.
To be effective, we rely on curious and motivated professionals like you—people who enjoy diving into data, patterns, and customer behaviour to uncover suspicious or illegal activities. Together with your team, you will be responsible for generating insights into our current Transaction Monitoring (TM) system and supporting its continuous optimisation. This role requires a strong combination of technical and analytical skills, along with the ability to visualise and clearly communicate your findings. When done well, your work allows operational analysts to focus on true positive alerts and spend their time on activities that truly add value. In short, you will be on the front line of the fight against financial crime. Team Composition You will join a team of 8 professionals, including a Product Owner, Scrum Master, and a diverse mix of Data Scientists and Data Analysts. Your Top 3 Responsibilities
Develop and improve data pipelines for tuning, lookbacks, and impact analyses, combining complex TM model components in a smart and efficient way.
Perform end-to-end analyses, from intake and coding to visualisation and presenting insights to stakeholders.
Design and build production-ready dashboards, covering both front-end and back-end, to support rule tuning, rule development, and insight into daily transaction monitoring detection.
Practical Examples of Your Work
Estimating the impact of proposed parameter changes in the TM model on overall effectiveness and efficiency.
Optimising workflows to enable tuning across a broader range of parameter combinations.
Building dashboards in collaboration with platform squads and bringing them into production, such as:
A TM rule performance dashboard to optimise detection rules
An overview dashboard providing system-wide TM insights
A transaction dashboard to support the development of new TM rules
Requirements
Your Profile
Hold a Master’s degree in a technical field
Have 2+ years of experience performing data analysis in Python
Have experience with PySpark, Databricks, Power BI, and building end-to-end solutions using repositories, version control, pipelines, and testing frameworks
Are able to identify the real question behind a request and present results in a convincing and structured way
Are precise, proactive, communicative, and business-oriented, with a strong can-do mentality
Thrive in a high-impact, fast-paced, and complex environment
Are motivated to fight financial crime by improving the effectiveness of transaction monitoring—not just by building complex models, but by delivering measurable impact
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
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What happens next?
1
Application
After you apply, we will review your CV and compare it with other applications. If you are suitable, we will call you to discuss your experience, availability, and rate. If you are not suitable or less suitable than other applicants, we will politely decline your application.
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Propose to customer
After checking suitability, availability and rate, we will recommend you to the client and you will usually receive a response from the client within 5 working days as to whether they are interested and would like to arrange an interview.
3
Interview
After the interview, the client may wish to conduct a second or, in some cases, a third interview. If the client decides to hire you, the start date and onboarding process will be determined.
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Start / Onboarding
In order to get started, an onboarding procedure is initiated in which formalities are completed. This includes submitting personal details, passport and, if necessary, Chamber of Commerce registration in order to draw up a contract. In some cases, screening by an external agency commissioned by the client may be required. Once this has been completed, the assignment can begin!
