Fraud writer

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Fraud Rule Writer

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Data

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -052025-102263

Date Posted: 08/25/2025

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Description

Our client, a leading provider of consumer credit services, has an excellent opportunity for a Fraud Rules Writer to work on a 6+ month renewable contract opportunity. Work will be remote.The Fraud Rule Writer will help us to build out our underlying data sets to support the development of new strategies and to create data features needed to execute real-time detection rules.

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $40 - $50 / hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy fraud detection rules, which make optimal use of ML models and data, directly within our fraud rules engine.
• Author and maintain code to support rule execution, data ingestion, and decisioning logic.
• Integrate the fraud detection system with various data sources, including internal databases, third-party APIs (e.g., identity verification services), and real-time event streams.
• Manage and optimize the performance of the fraud detection system, ensuring low latency for real-time transaction processing.
• Design and maintain data pipelines that furnish required data to the fraud engine.
• Collaborate with fraud analysts and policy leads to ensure that data schemas and features are correctly formatted and available for utilization in fraud models and rules.
• Utilize data streaming processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka) to convert streaming events into features for real-time decisions by the rules engine.
  
  

Experience Requirements

• Hands on experience and understanding of Git & Github pull requests
• 1-2 years experience in Java
• Advanced SQL capabilities with at least 2 years of experience
• A general understanding of data streaming workflows and architectures
• Experience working with Drools is a plus
• Must be familiar with the following technologies:
• Scala - our streaming codebase is built in Scala
• Kafka topics - used for data streaming
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - specifically Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions
• Apache Thrift - essential for understanding data serialization, as objects transmitted over Kafka/Pubsub topics are defined using Thrift schemas
  
  

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, cybersecurity, computer information systems, or related field.
  
  

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact [email protected].

About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]