VP Engineering, Ongoing Monitoring

The role

You will lead the engineering organisation for Ongoing Monitoring, which detects fraud, financial crime, and regulatory risk. You will set the engineering strategy and lead teams across backend, frontend, data science, ML engineering, and analytics engineering.

What you will do

• Set the engineering strategy for Tide's fraud, financial crime and ongoing monitoring platforms
• Lead engineering across backend, frontend, data science, ML engineering and analytics engineering
• Lead managers and senior engineers, and build the leadership bench underneath you
• Work with multiple stakeholders across risk, operations, business, design, product and engineering
• Own the Decision Engine and Decision Intelligence Platform as shared capabilities
• Own the model lifecycle end to end
• Scale agentic AI in regulated workflows
• Deliver measurable risk and efficiency outcomes
• Build the operating model that connects first line operations, second line risk and compliance, payments and acquiring engineering, KYX, AI Platforms and data science leadership
• Apply principles so we build once, deploy globally, and keep market-specific logic isolated

Required qualifications

• Experience leading engineering organisations in fraud, financial crime, risk or another real-time decisioning domain
• Strong track record of turning platform investment into measurable outcomes across fraud detection and mitigation, unit economics reduction and workflows automation
• Experience taking machine learning from development into production at scale, and owning model performance once live and fast iteration of model development
• Experience operating in a regulated environment, working with second line risk and compliance functions and with regulators
• Strong judgement across organisation design, delivery, platform strategy, data architecture and technical quality
• Ability to lead distributed teams across multiple markets and align several functions behind one roadmap, operating model and set of priorities

Nice to have

• Experience deploying AI or agentic systems inside regulated workflows, with a clear view on governance, evaluation and human oversight

Benefits

• Competitive salary and share options
• Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years
• Public health insurance plan
• Public pension scheme on eligible earnings
• Employer funded free, unlimited travel throughout Germany on all local public transport
• Employer funded M membership to Urban Sports Club
• Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops
• Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth
• Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more
• Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually

About the company

Tide helps SMEs save time and money by offering business accounts, banking services, and administrative solutions. The company supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, Germany and France.