Falcon Fraud Manager - Mainframe Engineer (Upgrade & Implementation)

Falcon Fraud Manager - Mainframe Engineer (Upgrade & Implementation)

Basildon, United Kingdom Posted on 06/17/2026

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:UK Basildon (Onsite) UK right to work required (no sponsorship)

?: Few months out -structured ramp-up and product training supported

:Day-rate contract or permanent

Hands-on mainframe engineer to support FICO Falcon Fraud Manager versionupgrades and new card-issuer rollouts on a hosted card-fraud platform. You willown the z/OS side of the platform - configuration, rule deployment, batch andonline enhancements, defect resolution and live cutover support - workingalongside Fraud Strategy and Data Science colleagues.

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• 7+ years mainframe (z/OS): COBOL, JCL, DB2,CICS, VSAM
• Card / payments domain - issuer side, processorside, or switch side
• Hands-on production support and live cutoverdiscipline
• UK right to work

' (we'll cross-train on Falcon specifics)

You don't need to have touched Falcon directly. We will accept and traincandidates whose mainframe career has run alongside any of:

• Fraud / decisioning engines - SAS FraudManagement, NICE Actimize, IBM ODM, ACI Proactive Risk Manager, FICO BlazeAdvisor, FICO TRIAD
• Credit-scoring / risk-model implementation onz/OS - PD / LGD / EAD models, scorecards, rule strategies, or any decisioninglogic deployed onto the mainframe
• Card-issuer fraud-ops or transaction-monitoring(AML, real-time scoring)

• Prior FICO Falcon Fraud Manager exposure at anyversion
• Prior tenure at Fiserv, FICO, FIS, TSYS, Visa,Mastercard, or a UK card-issuer fraud team (Barclaycard, Lloyds Cards,RBS/NatWest Cards, HSBC Cards, Capital One)
• Reporting: Business Objects, Crystal Reports,SAS

• Structured ramp-up and product training duringthe first weeks
• Open to candidates returning to work after aplanned break