Job Description Senior Technical Architect, Fraud & Risk – Remote or Hybrid | Cary, NC Nice to meet you! We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers. We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here. About the job The Innovation and Automation Services team is looking for a Technical Architect with SAS Risk, Fraud and Compliance (RF&C) solutions expertise. In this role, you’ll be responsible for a variety of critical tasks. You will be designing, evaluating, and maintaining the SAS Managed best practices for our RF&C customers. Your main focus will be evaluating new solutions and aligning with R&D product management to efficiently get new and existing RF&C solutions into the hands of our SAS Managed customers. Priorities will be in the Risk (ALM, Liquidity, Enterprise Modeling and Decisioning, DAM, and modernizations) and Fraud (Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud Decisioning, and Financial Crimes Analytics). As the lead architect this would mean building and moving these solutions into our SAS Managed cloud providers like Azure and AWS. Cost optimization is also a key responsibility. You’ll need to maximize the value from our cloud investments. This includes designing repeatable deployments, effective system monitoring, and quick troubleshooting practices. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams at SAS, providing expert guidance on SAS RF&C capabilities in private cloud, and leading the integration of these solutions into managed application services within Cloud and Information Services (CIS). As a Senior Technical Architect, Fraud & Risk, you will: Be the SAS Managed RF&C architecture expert and CIS thought leader for bringing new R&D product changes and updates into SAS Viya managed application services. Produce detailed solution architectures to be implemented in our supported hosting locations. Work across multiple teams in Sales, R&D, and CIS to assess hosting architecture requirements. Evaluate and maintain alignment of hosting capabilities with SAS Viya and RF&C roadmaps. Communicate recommendations regarding cost optimization, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance efficiency when bringing solutions into managed application services. Participate in ongoing training to launch and ready new RF&C services for sale in private cloud with product management. Required qualifications Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, engineering or similar. 8+ years of technical architecture experience. Experience architecting for public cloud delivery. Azure preferred. Experience with SAS Viya or microservices based applications. Experience architecting for SAS Risk, Fraud and Compliance solutions. Experience with Kubernetes. Experience with CI/CD pipelines. Produce and communicate design documentation (architecture diagrams, non-functional requirements, and detailed solution architecture) Excellent written and verbal communication in English. Travel: as business requirements dictate. You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do. Preferred qualifications Agile development experience Scrum Product Owner experience World-class benefits Highlights include… Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans. Medical plan options include… PPO with low annual deductible and copays. HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center). Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge! An industry-leading 401k plan. Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1. Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days. Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees #LI-Remote
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