Business Rules / Decision Engine Developer

About the Role

This is a 6-month contract-to-hire position for a Business Rules / Decision Engine Developer in the Financial Services industry. The role is based in Wilmington, DE, with a hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Work within the risk and rules development team on the business side as they move through the execution tasks.
• The individual selected would be exposed to two major initiatives.
• Coding within the rules engine.
• Experience with Drools (open-source decision engine) is a plus.
• Experience with the existing strategy management of the decision engine is required; open to any kind of decision engine, not just focused on one.
• Ramp up on the current decision engine architecture and business workflows.
• Support the incremental development lifecycle by working with technology, credit risk, and product teams.
• Test and deploy in support of transitioning from an on-prem decision engine to a modernized cloud-native implementation.
• Analyze and identify areas for optimization as the platform transitions to the target state.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Top three skills: Decision engine / Python / Java / AWS cloud.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 10+ years of hands-on work related to:
  • Experience and involvement with strategy-based decisioning platforms / decision engines/rule-based systems.
  • Programming experience (Java) and a strong fundamental understanding of data structures.
  • Proven experience in modernizing enterprise systems to cloud-native architectures.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and programming in Java and JSON to support design and implementation tasks.

Pluses

• Drools experience.
• Prior optimization engine experience within the decision space.
• Experience within financial services (Credit & Lending).

Salary and Compensation

The hourly rate for this position is between $80 - $85 per hour. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• short-term disability insurance
• paid parking/public transportation
• paid time
• paid sick and safe time
• weeks of paid vacation time
• weeks of paid parental leave
• paid holidays annually