Senior Product Owner - Transaction Monitoring

About the role

Fenergo builds AI-powered client lifecycle management for financial institutions, covering KYC, AML and financial crime prevention. As Senior Product Owner of its Transaction Monitoring (TM) solution, you will own the tactical execution of features on an enterprise-grade AML/CLM platform, working with engineering, data science, customer and product teams to deliver detection engines, AI models, alert and case management UX, audit and reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Break down features and requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritised backlog items.
• Drive backlog grooming, sprint planning and priorities across multiple engineering pods.
• Deliver TM features such as real-time and batch pipelines, detection analytics, alert scoring, alert and case creation, and feedback loops.
• Take part in design reviews, technical estimation and ensure performance, scalability, security and auditability are in scope.
• Support model calibration, back-testing, threshold tuning and monitoring of false positives and recall.
• Ensure explainability, reason codes, lineage and model transparency across the TM solution.
• Define test cases and regression suites, oversee UAT and release validation.
• Monitor metrics such as alert volumes, false positives, investigator throughput and conversion rates.
• Manage dependencies with external systems (watchlists, screening, sanctions feeds, data enrichment).
• Maintain product documentation, user guides and runbooks, and keep up to date on AML regulations and typologies.

Required profile

• 6+ years in product, business analysis or domain roles, with at least 4 years in AML, financial crime, risk or compliance products or operations.
• Deep understanding of AML transaction monitoring, financial crime typologies and case management flows.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or equivalent, or extensive equivalent experience.
• CAMS or equivalent certification preferred.

Required skills

• Agile / Scrum and user story writing.
• Data processing and analytics: pipelines, feature engineering, model scoring, streaming vs batch.
• Stakeholder management and clear communication of technical topics.

What we offer

• Healthcare cover, company pension contribution and life assurance / income protection.
• Annual leave plus 3 company closure days and annual bonus opportunity.
• Work from home set-up allowance and flexible working hours.
• Training through Fenergo University and defined career tracking.
• Active sports and social club, and state-of-the-art offices in Dublin's Docklands.