Fraud Data Analytics Consultant - Remote from UK then onsite in Kuwait

About the engagement Capitex is a specialist Financial Crime Compliance talent provider. We are engaging a consultant-level Fraud Data Analyst for a 6-month engagement at the centre of a leading regional bank's 24/7 digital fraud operation - a build-phase environment where the data and analytics layer is being created, not inherited. This is a 6-month consultancy engagement with a defined delivery model: the first two months are delivered fully remotely from the UK, and from Month 3 the role relocates onsite to the bank's offices in Kuwait City for the remainder of the term. Onsite presence in Kuwait from Month 3 is a firm requirement of the role, not a preference - please only apply if you are genuinely able and willing to relocate for the onsite phase. Working pattern is standard bank hours, Sunday to Thursday, with start-time flexibility for UK-based delivery during the remote phase. The role You will be the senior data capability of the fraud operation - a consultant, not a colleague: expected to own the analytics agenda, drive it forward, and mentor the bank's own analysts as you do. The operation runs a modern fraud estate spanning behavioural biometrics on the digital channels, an enterprise card fraud monitoring platform, a newly implemented fraud case management system, and the bank's core and online banking data. Your job is to make that estate speak: correlate data across all of it, find the fraud patterns, and convert what you find into detection. What you will do Query, extract and correlate data across multiple systems and databases - digital channel telemetry, card fraud alerts, case management records, core and online banking data - to identify fraud patterns, emerging typologies and detection gaps. Convert analysis into action: build the evidence base for new and tuned detection rules, and deliver concrete rule recommendations to the operation's rule-writers, with measured impact on false positives and detection rates. Design and build the dashboards, views and management reporting on rule performance, alert outcomes and fraud losses that the operation's leadership runs on. Take a central role in the bank's new Microsoft Fabric data lake programme - designing and building the fraud analytics layer on it over the coming months. Mentor and upskill the bank's own analyst team - knowledge transfer is an explicit and valued part of this seat, including through the operation's pairing arrangements. Support post-incident and thematic reviews with data deep-dives, working alongside the team's L1/L2 analysts and senior fraud investigator. Requirements What we are looking for Consultant-level experience in fraud or financial crime data analytics - typically 5+ years - within banking, payments or fintech, with the seniority to own the analytics agenda and advise, not just execute. Strong Python and strong SQL - both essential and both tested at screening. A quantified track record: losses reduced, false positives cut,…