Blockchain Compliance Specialist

As a Blockchain Compliance Specialist at ING, you execute and oversee day-to-day compliance controls for ING's blockchain and digital asset activities. You work at the intersection of blockchain analytics, financial crime compliance, AML/CFT, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, Travel Rule operations, case management, and regulatory reporting. Your mission is to help ING identify, assess, investigate, and escalate financial crime risks linked to digital assets through consistent, timely, explainable, and auditable operational processes. This is a hands-on compliance operations role where you translate regulatory obligations into monitoring procedures, alert handling, investigations, decision records, escalations, management information, and evidence trails.

What you'll do

• Execute day-to-day compliance controls and monitoring procedures for blockchain and digital asset activities
• Handle alerts, conduct investigations, and escalate financial crime risks with clear decision records and evidence trails
• Work with blockchain analytics tools to trace transactions, assess wallet risk, and attribute entities on-chain
• Review and validate Travel Rule controls, originator and beneficiary information, and crypto-asset transfers
• Prepare suspicious activity reports, management information, and regulatory reporting on digital asset compliance
• Collaborate with global teams across multiple ING locations to ensure consistent compliance operations

What you bring

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Law, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Criminology, Risk Management, Compliance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience in compliance, financial crime, banking operations, transaction monitoring, investigations, or digital asset operations
• Understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and suspicious activity reporting
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics, wallet risk scoring, transaction tracing, on-chain investigations, and crypto typologies
• Awareness of Travel Rule requirements and the importance of originator and beneficiary information in crypto-asset transfers
• Understanding of EU digital asset regulation, including MiCA and related AML/CFT expectations for crypto-asset service providers
• Ability to work in a regulated banking environment where traceability, auditability, control evidence, privacy, security, and governance are essential

Nice to have

• Experience in compliance operations, financial crime operations, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, investigations, or digital asset operations
• Experience with blockchain analytics platforms such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, Merkle Science, Scorechain, or Crystal
• Experience with case management, alert triage, investigation workflows, suspicious activity reviews, or financial crime platforms
• Experience working with Travel Rule controls, originator and beneficiary information validation, or crypto-asset transfer reviews
• Knowledge of tokenization, digital assets, stablecoins, CBDCs, tokenized deposits, custody, settlement, and wholesale banking use cases
• Knowledge of DeFi protocols, decentralized exchanges, mixers, bridges, privacy-enhancing tools, and smart contract risk
• Experience interpreting blockchain analytics, transaction tracing, entity attribution, and risk exposure information
• Experience with data governance, retention, privacy, access control, and audit evidence
• Experience working with global teams, multi-country regulatory requirements, and enterprise governance standards
• Blockchain, digital assets, AML, sanctions, or financial crime-related certifications such as CAMS, ICA, Chainalysis Certification, TRM Certification, or Elliptic Certification
• Training in investigations, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, quality assurance, or regulatory reporting

What we offer

• 14 days of welcome leave, even in your first year
• Flexible hybrid working model with two days per week at the Vadistanbul office and one fully remote week per month, plus additional remote flexibility throughout August
• Training budget and Udemy partnership
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• Private Pension Plan
• Meal Card
• Transportation Allowance
• MultiSport Membership
• English Language Development Support
• Self-driven career opportunities and global mobility with international career prospects
• Challenging projects and continuous learning opportunities

About ING

ING is a major European bank with a global technology organization. At ING Hubs Türkiye, teams design and deliver critical technology platforms that support ING's digital transformation journey, with a focus on scalable architectures, strong engineering practices, automation, and continuous learning.