Fraud Rule Writer Job at Eliassen Group in Providence

Overview

• 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 a 6+ month renewable contract opportunity for a Fraud Rules Writer. This role is remote and focuses on building data sets to support the development of new strategies and the creation of data features needed to execute real-time detection rules.

Note: This role is on a W2 basis. For W2 consultants, the benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision benefits, a 401(k) with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $40 - $50 / hr. W2

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy fraud detection rules, leveraging ML models and data within the 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 performance of the fraud detection system to ensure 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 data schemas and features are correctly formatted and available for use 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 and GitHub pull requests.
• 1-2 years of Java experience.
• Advanced SQL capabilities with at least 2 years of experience.
• General understanding of data streaming workflows and architectures.
• Experience with Drools is a plus.
• Familiar with the following technologies:
• Scala – the 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

Equal Opportunity and About Eliassen Group

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.

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 with international reach. Eliassen Group aims to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

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