FEC Data Scientist: Sanctions Tech Innovation

This is what we offer you

Gross monthly salary between € 4.024 and € 5.747 (scale 08).

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance

• 10% Employee Benefit Budget

• EUR 1,400 development budget per year

• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)

• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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Job Title

FEC Data Scientist: Sanctions Tech Innovation

Job Description

As a Data Scientist in Sanctions Tech Innovation, you play a key role in bringing business requirements on complying with international sanctions regulations into concrete solutions that fit the available data. You leverage your creative thinking and quantitative analysis skills to enhance existing screening solutions and assist in the development of new solutions. 

You & your job 

Being a gatekeeper to the financial system is easier said than done. In the rapidly evolving field of sanctions compliance, staying ahead means continuously adapting and optimizing models to ensure robust risk coverage across millions of clients and transactions. As a Data Scientist in this team that is part of the FEC Tech department, you will play a key role in developing innovative methods to mitigate sanctions risks and translating business requirements into model features. 

Examples from practice 

• Perform data analysis uncovering common sanctions circumvention patterns. 

• Aid in developing statistical models that suppress false positive sanctions alerts. 

•  Develop a business case for how network data can detect sanctions violations.  

Facts & figures 

• 36 hours per week. 

• You will join a close team of 12 ambitious and strongly analytical colleagues. 

•  More than 49,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide.  

Top 3 responsibilities 

• Translate business requirements surrounding sanctions circumvention risk into model features. 

• Using data analysis identify sanctions risk gaps and initiate proposals to cover them. 

• Developing proof of concepts for new statistical models in a project team of 2-3 other data scientists. 

 
You contribute to an impactful mission by strengthening Rabobank’s capability to detect and mitigate sanctions risks with advanced analytics, rigorous modelling standards, and innovative approaches to risk identification. 

 

Together we achieve more than alone 

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people’s unique strengths, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our Sanctions Detection area within FEC Tech. 

“We’re a curious, collaborative team that thrives on solving complex problems with smart, ethical tech. Everyone brings their strengths, and we build on each other’s ideas to create real impact.” — Ofek Sverdlov, Project Lead in Sanctions Tech Innovation  

The 12 people in the Sanctions Tech Innovation team develop innovative datadriven met