Crypto Financial Crime Data and Functional SME

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $145hr - $150hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, KYC, Sanctions, or Transaction Monitoring.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Crypto AML / Blockchain Risk Management.
• Deep understanding of crypto compliance controls within global banking environments.
• Experience working with at least one major blockchain intelligence platform.

Responsibilities:

• Define target operating models for Crypto AML, Sanctions, Investigations, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Advise senior stakeholders on crypto financial crime risks, controls, governance, and industry best practices.
• Design operating workflows covering alert generation, triage, investigations, escalation, and case management.
• Develop implementation roadmaps for enterprise crypto compliance programs.
• Design and optimize crypto transaction monitoring frameworks and detection scenarios.
• Define controls covering wallet screening, sanctions exposure, mixer/tumbler activity, high-risk jurisdictions, layering and obfuscation patterns, rapid movement of digital assets, wallet hopping and network relationships.
• Establish integration between crypto monitoring and traditional fiat AML controls.
• Lead design of blockchain intelligence and analytics solutions using platforms such as TRM Labs and Chainalysis.
• Define wallet attribution, entity resolution, clustering, and counterparty identification approaches.
• Design crypto financial crime data models and data governance frameworks.
• Establish crypto risk intelligence and counterparty intelligence capabilities leveraging graph analytics and network analysis.
• Define end-to-end data flows across blockchain data, customer/KYC data, screening platforms, transaction monitoring systems, and case management platforms.
• Design integration architecture between cloud-native crypto solutions and existing on-premise financial crime ecosystems.
• Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to define scalable implementation architectures.
• Lead workshops with business, compliance, operations, and technology stakeholders.
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior financial crime and compliance executives.
• Drive requirements definition, solution design, vendor evaluation, and implementation strategy.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting Tier-1 global banks, investment banks, or systemically important financial institutions.
• Knowledge of Quantexa, graph analytics, and network analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with Fircosoft or enterprise sanctions screening platforms.
• Experience with cloud-based financial crime platforms and modern data architectures.
• Prior consulting, advisory, or transformation leadership experience.

Skills:

• Crypto AML & Compliance.
• Blockchain Analytics.
• TRM Labs / Chainalysis.
• Financial Crime Data Strategy.
• Transaction Monitoring.
• Sanctions Screening.
• Counterparty Intelligence.
• Entity Resolution.
• Graph & Network Analytics.
• Financial Crime Target Operating Models.
• Data Governance.
• Executive Stakeholder Management.