Key skills: SAS, Transaction, Monitoring, aml, Financial
Role Title – Sr. SAS Developer - Transaction Monitoring
Location- Columbus, Ohio
Experience Range - 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 backtesting, 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