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Fraud Analyst Jobs in Atlanta Metropolitan Area at Infobahn Softworld Inc
Title: Fraud Analyst
Company: Infobahn Softworld Inc
Location: Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Title: Principal Fraud & Risk Systems Lead
Location: Midtown, Atlanta
The Principal, Risk Monitoring & Fraud Systems will lead the design, strategy, and evolution of fraud detection and risk monitoring capabilities across in-store, forecourt, and digital payment environments.
This role is a senior individual contributor responsible for shaping real-time fraud prevention and risk decisioning systems, translating business and regulatory requirements into scalable, high-performance solutions. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in payments risk and fraud, along with experience building intelligent, high-volume monitoring platforms in retail or fintech environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for fraud detection and risk monitoring systems, aligned with enterprise payments objectives.
- Design and enhance real-time transaction monitoring and decisioning capabilities, including rules engines, scoring models, and alerting systems.
- Develop and optimize fraud detection strategies, balancing fraud loss prevention with customer experience and approval rates.
- Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to implement scalable, cloud-native, API-first solutions for risk and fraud management.
- Contribute deep expertise in forecourt and fuel-related fraud scenarios, including EMV at the pump, card-not-present fraud, mobile payments, fleet cards, and loyalty abuse.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Payments, Data Science, and Operations teams to embed risk controls seamlessly into payment flows.
- Analyze fraud trends, transaction data, and system performance to continuously refine detection logic and reduce false positives.
- Support integration with external partners, including card networks, acquirers, and fraud data providers.
- Ensure alignment with compliance and security standards, including PCI-DSS, AML, and KYC requirements.
- Act as a subject matter expert on emerging fraud threats, technologies, and industry best practices, influencing broader platform strategy.
Qualifications:
- 8–12+ years of experience in payments risk, fraud systems, or financial crime technology.
- Experience working at or with a payments processor, fintech, bank, or fraud platform provider.
- Proven hands-on experience designing or managing real-time fraud detection or risk decisioning systems.
- Strong understanding of fraud methodologies, including rules-based detection, machine learning models, and behavioral analytics.
- Knowledge of payments and security standards such as EMV, PCI-DSS, tokenization, AML, and KYC.
- Ability to translate complex risk and regulatory requirements into scalable product or technical solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data to drive decisions and optimize performance.
- Experience with cloud-based architectures and modern data platforms preferred.
- Background in retail, convenience, or petroleum payments is a plus.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or related field.
