Senior SDS Developer

Senior SDS Developer - 12month - £650 PD - Inside IR 35

A highly reputable financial services corporation is currently hiring an experienced consultant with strong capabilities in SDS coding, Experian PowerCurve and experience working with analytical tools such as SQL, SAS, R or Python. This is a 12 month contract opportunity paying up to £650 per day Inside IR 35 to be based in either London, Chatham or Wolverhampton 3 x PW.

The chosen candidate must have prior experience building a Credit Decisioning Strategy focusing on the interpretation and coding of Credit strategies into Experian Strategy Design Studio (SDS) through a lifecycle process: Analyse, Assess, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, Monitor & Optimise.
Core responsibilities

• Support the initial design, development and testing of the Banks new Credit decisioning strategy.
• Role will focus on the interpretation and coding of Credit strategies into Experian Strategy Design Studio (SDS) through a lifecycle process: Analyse, Assess, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, Monitor & Optimise
• Supporting the Deployment of Powercurve and SDS strategies into technical infrastructure. Providing SME guidance on best practice implementing SDS/PCO.
• Working closely with the Credit Risk function to coach / train SDS coding capability within the team
• Design, Deliver Credit strategies through the delivery of SDS coding into the new Risk decisioning platform
• Ensure rules are robustly tested with the implementation of peer testing impact assessments
• Act as the SDS SME and provide coaching / training to enable additional SDS coding capability within the Risk team. Work with those individuals to oversee coding and provide peer review testing

• Proven experience with Experian PowerCurve and SDS coding at an expert level
• Experience on working on decisioning systems for UK mortgages
• Strong coding knowledge and experience working with analytical tools such as SQL, SAS, R or Python)
• Knowledge of the consumer credit sectors and products, ideally residential and Buy to Let mortgages with a core background in risk and/or analytics
• Experience working with CRA (Credit reference Agency) originations and account management data / other credit data
• Knowledge and experience of credit risk processes, governance and documentation
• Experience delivering within agile environments such as Scrum & SAFe etc.