Centraprise
SAS Developer
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This role is for a SAS Developer with a 6+ year background in BSA/AML and Transaction Monitoring, offering a contract of "X months" at a pay rate of "$Y/hour". Key skills include SAS AML, SQL, AWS, and financial services experience.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
August 11, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Transformations #Deployment #Unit Testing #Linux #Data Integration #SQL Server #Oracle #Data Mapping #Monitoring #Complex Queries #Documentation #Batch #Version Control #Compliance #Databases #SAS #Regression #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Unix #Base #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Cloud #GIT
Role 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:
1. Proficiency in Base SAS, SAS Macro Language, PROC SQL, and SAS Data Integration Studio.
1. Direct experience building and configuring rules in SAS Anti-Money Laundering or SAS Viya) and SAS Visual Investigator.
1. Experience mapping complex transactional data into the SAS standard core data model, writing complex queries for ETL and data transformations.
1. Hands-on experience developing, testing, and parameterizing detection scenario logic, alert generation rules, and threshold filters.
1. Experience running backtesting, grid tuning, and false-positive reduction analyses using SAS or SQL data routines.
1. Expertise in relational databases (Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server), Git version control, and Unix/Linux command-line environments.
1. Hands-on work experience in AWS Cloud Platform.
1. 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.
1. Perform source-to-scenario data mapping from card processor, sponsor bank, and network data feeds into SAS data staging tables.
1. Execute unit testing, regression testing, backtesting, and threshold calibration to minimize false positives while optimizing alert quality.
1. Author detailed technical specs, build documentation, and deployment scripts to support Model Risk Management (MRM) and governance approvals.
1. Always be audit ready
Required:
1. Financial Services / Banking
1. BSA/AML Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), and Transaction Monitoring
Preferred:
1. Payments Domain Expertise: Merchant Acquiring, BIN Sponsorship (Issuing & Acquiring), Payment Facilitators (PayFacs), and Embedded Payments.
1. Understanding of ISO 8583 / payment network message feeds (Visa, Mastercard), settlement batch files, and merchant category codes (MCCs).
1. Graph Analytics or Network Science experience is a plus
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:
1. Proficiency in Base SAS, SAS Macro Language, PROC SQL, and SAS Data Integration Studio.
1. Direct experience building and configuring rules in SAS Anti-Money Laundering or SAS Viya) and SAS Visual Investigator.
1. Experience mapping complex transactional data into the SAS standard core data model, writing complex queries for ETL and data transformations.
1. Hands-on experience developing, testing, and parameterizing detection scenario logic, alert generation rules, and threshold filters.
1. Experience running backtesting, grid tuning, and false-positive reduction analyses using SAS or SQL data routines.
1. Expertise in relational databases (Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server), Git version control, and Unix/Linux command-line environments.
1. Hands-on work experience in AWS Cloud Platform.
1. 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.
1. Perform source-to-scenario data mapping from card processor, sponsor bank, and network data feeds into SAS data staging tables.
1. Execute unit testing, regression testing, backtesting, and threshold calibration to minimize false positives while optimizing alert quality.
1. Author detailed technical specs, build documentation, and deployment scripts to support Model Risk Management (MRM) and governance approvals.
1. Always be audit ready
Required:
1. Financial Services / Banking
1. BSA/AML Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), and Transaction Monitoring
Preferred:
1. Payments Domain Expertise: Merchant Acquiring, BIN Sponsorship (Issuing & Acquiring), Payment Facilitators (PayFacs), and Embedded Payments.
1. Understanding of ISO 8583 / payment network message feeds (Visa, Mastercard), settlement batch files, and merchant category codes (MCCs).
1. Graph Analytics or Network Science experience is a plus
