Junior AML Analyst

Blaze

AML Compliance Specialist focusing on data pipelines and risk modeling for a leading gaming platform. Collaborating with compliance and engineering teams to ensure regulatory compliance and security.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeSão Paulo • 🇧🇷 BrazilJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, maintain, and scale robust AML/CFT data pipelines and automated monitoring systems to ensure flawless, real-time regulatory reporting to COAF and the SPA.
Develop, tune, and manage predictive Risk Scoring models using data analytics and machine learning to accurately classify and monitor player risk levels.
Design and optimize data integrations with global sanctions and risk watchlists (PEP, UN, OFAC), tuning algorithms to ensure data quality, maximize coverage, and reduce false-positive alerts.
Translate complex AML/CFT regulatory requirements and internal procedures into structured data logic, automated rules engines, and efficient operational workflows.
Build and maintain executive dashboards, KPI tracking systems, and BI reports to power annual effectiveness assessments and regulatory audits.
Collaborate with engineering teams to embed data-driven logic into KYC, KYP, KYE, and KYS processes, utilizing advanced analytics to streamline case management.
Proactively mine transactional data to identify hidden patterns, structural anomalies, and behavioral trends indicative of money laundering or fraud.
Develop and maintain risk matrices and quantitative frameworks to measure the effectiveness of internal controls on an annual basis.
Identify patterns, anomalies, and behavioral trends in transactional data to proactively detect financial crime indicators.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a highly quantitative field.
High-Volume Data Environments: 2+ years of experience in Data Analytics or Data Engineering, ideally within iGaming, FinTech, E-commerce, or Digital Banking, where transaction volumes are massive and real-time.
AML/CFT Frameworks: A solid conceptual understanding of financial crime indicators, transaction monitoring, and what PEP/OFAC/Sanctions lists are.
The "Translator" Ability: Ability to sit with a legal/compliance officer, understand a text-heavy law, and translate it into a mathematical formula or an automated rule code.
Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a high-growth, fast-moving digital environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meal Voucher
Transportation Allowance
Health Insurance
Paid-Time Off

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analyticsmachine learningpredictive modelingdata integrationautomated monitoring systemsKPI trackingrisk scoringdata pipelinesquantitative frameworkstransaction monitoring

Soft Skills

adaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationanalytical thinkingattention to detailtranslating complex requirementscritical thinkingorganizational skillsproactive mindset