12+ SAS Developer - Transaction Monitoring

Title- SAS Developer - Transaction Monitoring

Location- Columbus, OH

Contract

12+Years

Job Description:

Major Skills: 6+ years experience in BSA/AML, Transaction Monitoring, with at least 3+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience developing within SAS AML / SAS Financial Crimes Suite environments.

Key Skills:

• Proficiency in Base SAS, SAS Macro Language, PROC SQL, and SAS Data Integration Studio.
• Direct experience building and configuring rules in SAS Anti-Money Laundering or SAS Viya) and SAS Visual Investigator.
• Experience mapping complex transactional data into the SAS standard core data model, writing complex queries for ETL and data transformations.
• Hands-on experience developing, testing, and parameterizing detection scenario logic, alert generation rules, and threshold filters. 
• Experience running back testing, grid tuning, and false-positive reduction analyses using SAS or SQL data routines. 
• Expertise in relational databases (Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server), Git version control, and Unix/Linux command-line environments.
• Hands-on work experience in AWS Cloud Platform.
• Strong analytical skills, and ability to do root cause analysis (RCA) independently

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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. 
• Perform source-to-scenario data mapping from card processor, sponsor bank, and network data feeds into SAS data staging tables. 
• Execute unit testing, regression testing, backtesting, and threshold calibration to minimize false positives while optimizing alert quality. 
• Author detailed technical specs, build documentation, and deployment scripts to support Model Risk Management (MRM) and governance approvals.
• Always be audit ready

Required:

• Financial Services / Banking
• BSA/AML Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), and Transaction Monitoring

Preferred:

• Payments Domain Expertise: Merchant Acquiring, BIN Sponsorship (Issuing & Acquiring), Payment Facilitators (PayFacs), and Embedded Payments. 
• Understanding of ISO 8583 / payment network message feeds (Visa, Mastercard), settlement batch files, and merchant category codes (MCCs).
• Graph Analytics or Network Science experience is a plus