SAS Developer

Key Skills:

1. Proficiency in Base SAS, SAS Macro Language, PROC SQL, and SAS Data Integration Studio.

2. Direct experience building and configuring rules in SAS Anti-Money Laundering or SAS Viya) and SAS Visual Investigator.

3. Experience mapping complex transactional data into the SAS standard core data model, writing complex queries for ETL and data transformations.

4. Hands-on experience developing, testing, and parameterizing detection scenario logic, alert generation rules, and threshold filters.

5. Experience running backtesting, grid tuning, and false-positive reduction analyses using SAS or SQL data routines.

6. Expertise in relational databases (Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server), Git version control, and Unix/Linux command-line environments.

7. Hands-on work experience in AWS Cloud Platform.

8. Strong analytical skills, and ability to do root cause analysis (RCA) independently

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Translate business risk requirements into functional SAS code and detection logic for priority scenario families, including Velocity & Flow, Profile & Peer Anomalies, Transaction Laundering, Structuring etc.

2. Perform source-to-scenario data mapping from card processor, sponsor bank, and network data feeds into SAS data staging tables.

3. Execute unit testing, regression testing, backtesting, and threshold calibration to minimize false positives while optimizing alert quality.

4. Author detailed technical specs, build documentation, and deployment scripts to support Model Risk Management (MRM) and governance approvals.

5. Always be audit ready

Required:

1. Financial Services / Banking

2. BSA/AML Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), and Transaction Monitoring

Preferred:

1. Payments Domain Expertise: