Yadimen Consulting

Falcon Fraud Manager - Mainframe Engineer (Upgrade & Implementation)

Yadimen Consulting

Basildon, Essex, United KingdomFull timePosted Jun 17, 2026

Job description

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  • 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 version upgrades and new card-issuer rollouts on a hosted card-fraud platform. You will own the z/OS side of the platform — configuration, rule deployment, batch and online enhancements, defect resolution and live cutover support — working alongside Fraud Strategy and Data Science colleagues.

Requirements

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  • 7+ years mainframe (z/OS): COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM
  • Card / payments domain — issuer side, processor side, or switch side
  • Hands-on production support and live cutover discipline
  • UK right to work ???????? ?????????? ??’?? ?????? (we’ll cross-train on Falcon specifics) You don’t need to have touched Falcon directly. We will accept and train candidates whose mainframe career has run alongside any of:
  • Card platforms — Fiserv VisionPlus, TSYS, Base24, Tandem, ACI Proactive Risk Manager, FIS card-processing stack
  • Fraud / decisioning engines — SAS Fraud Management, NICE Actimize, IBM ODM, ACI Proactive Risk Manager, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO TRIAD
  • Credit-scoring / risk-model implementation on z/OS — PD / LGD / EAD models, scorecards, rule strategies, or any decisioning logic deployed onto the mainframe
  • Card-issuer fraud-ops or transaction-monitoring (AML, real-time scoring) ???? ?? ????
  • Prior FICO Falcon Fraud Manager exposure at any version
  • 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)
  • ISO 8583 / ISO 20022 message-level knowledge
  • Reporting: Business Objects, Crystal Reports, SAS ??? ?? ????
  • Structured ramp-up and product training during the first weeks
  • Open to candidates returning to work after a planned break ??? ?? ????? Send latest CV with: mainframe stack worked on, card / fraud / scoring adjacency (Falcon, Visionplus, Base24, SAS, Actimize, scoring models etc.), current location, day-rate or salary expectation, availability and UK RTW.