Eliassen Group is hiring: Fraud Rule Writer in Sacramento

Overview

Fraud Rule Writer — Location: Anywhere — Type: Contract — Category: Data — Industry: Financial Services — Workplace Type: Remote

Date Posted: 08/25/2025

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.

Compensation

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 with 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
• Familiar with technologies: Scala (streaming codebase), Kafka topics, Google Cloud Platform (Pub/Sub), Apache Thrift

Education Requirements

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

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.

Equal Opportunity

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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