Senior Level Fraud Analyst Jobs
Senior level fraud analyst jobs put experienced professionals in charge of complex investigation programs, cross-functional risk strategy, and the analysts who carry out the work. Openings are concentrated in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Investment & Asset Management, with 26% remote or hybrid positions available and Citi, Google, and Robinhood hiring at this level now.
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General information
Ally and Your Career
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
The Work Itself
As an engineer on this team, you'll tackle fascinating challenges at the convergence of fast data and security - processing massive volumes of streaming events, enriching signals with contextual intelligence, and serving insights with millisecond latency. You'll work with modern data technologies to build resilient, scalable platforms where performance and reliability directly impact our ability to keep customers safe. This is your opportunity to shape Ally’s next‑gen identity and fraud defense stack, AI-assisted development workflows, honing your skills in security-first design principles, distributed systems, streaming architectures, and cloud‑native development. This role offers the rare combination of high-impact work, cutting-edge technology, and meaningful outcomes. You'll collaborate across engineering, data science and security teams to solve complex problems that matter. Whether you're developing intelligent identity management capabilities, designing event schemas and platforms for real-time fraud detection, or building APIs that serve critical signals, your work will be visible and valued.
On this team, we believe in relentless progress balanced with sustainable pace. We support each other, celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and foster an environment where everyone can do their best work. Our #1 goal is team success, and our people are above all else.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and build scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and enrich signals from diverse sources across Ally's ecosystem
- Develop streaming applications that process high-volume event streams with low latency requirements
- Create robust data models and schemas optimized for both analytical queries and real-time serving
- Write clean, tested Python code following engineering best practices and team standards
- Collaborate with fraud analysts and data scientists to understand requirements and deliver solutions that drive real outcomes
- Participate in architectural decisions, technical design reviews, and code reviews
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for data platform components
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance and reliability
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing across the team
- Experiment with emerging technologies and propose innovations that enhance platform capabilities
- Mentor team members and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
The Skills You Bring
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Proficiency in Python for building data pipelines, APIs, and backend services
- NodeJS, TypeScript, Java is nice to have.
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with PostgreSQL including query optimization and data modeling
- Experience working with both relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB) and Graph DB (Neptune) in production environments
- Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT workflows for data transformation and enrichment
- Passion for writing maintainable code, automated tests, and clear documentation
- Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Self-motivated learner who stays curious about new technologies and approaches
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building or working with streaming applications and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with AWS data services such as Flink, Glue, Kinesis, and ElasticCache
- Understanding of API design and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of RESTful API Design, GraphQL and AWS AppSync for building scalable APIs
- Knowledge of serverless patterns and technologies (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, etc.)
- Knowledge of observability tools and distributed tracing (Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, X-Ray)
- Familiarity with caching strategies for authentication state (ElastiCache, Redis)
- Experience designing and deploying systems across multi-region architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or similar
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts and data engineering principles
- Background or interest in cybersecurity, fraud detection, or risk management domains
- Exposure to distributed messaging systems or event streaming platforms
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and workflows
How We'll Have Your Back
- Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
General information
Ally and Your Career
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
The Work Itself
As an engineer on this team, you'll tackle fascinating challenges at the convergence of fast data and security - processing massive volumes of streaming events, enriching signals with contextual intelligence, and serving insights with millisecond latency. You'll work with modern data technologies to build resilient, scalable platforms where performance and reliability directly impact our ability to keep customers safe. This is your opportunity to shape Ally’s next‑gen identity and fraud defense stack, AI-assisted development workflows, honing your skills in security-first design principles, distributed systems, streaming architectures, and cloud‑native development. This role offers the rare combination of high-impact work, cutting-edge technology, and meaningful outcomes. You'll collaborate across engineering, data science and security teams to solve complex problems that matter. Whether you're developing intelligent identity management capabilities, designing event schemas and platforms for real-time fraud detection, or building APIs that serve critical signals, your work will be visible and valued.
On this team, we believe in relentless progress balanced with sustainable pace. We support each other, celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and foster an environment where everyone can do their best work. Our #1 goal is team success, and our people are above all else.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and build scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and enrich signals from diverse sources across Ally's ecosystem
- Develop streaming applications that process high-volume event streams with low latency requirements
- Create robust data models and schemas optimized for both analytical queries and real-time serving
- Write clean, tested Python code following engineering best practices and team standards
- Collaborate with fraud analysts and data scientists to understand requirements and deliver solutions that drive real outcomes
- Participate in architectural decisions, technical design reviews, and code reviews
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for data platform components
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance and reliability
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing across the team
- Experiment with emerging technologies and propose innovations that enhance platform capabilities
- Mentor team members and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
The Skills You Bring
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Proficiency in Python for building data pipelines, APIs, and backend services
- NodeJS, TypeScript, Java is nice to have.
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with PostgreSQL including query optimization and data modeling
- Experience working with both relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB) and Graph DB (Neptune) in production environments
- Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT workflows for data transformation and enrichment
- Passion for writing maintainable code, automated tests, and clear documentation
- Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Self-motivated learner who stays curious about new technologies and approaches
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building or working with streaming applications and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with AWS data services such as Flink, Glue, Kinesis, and ElasticCache
- Understanding of API design and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of RESTful API Design, GraphQL and AWS AppSync for building scalable APIs
- Knowledge of serverless patterns and technologies (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, etc.)
- Knowledge of observability tools and distributed tracing (Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, X-Ray)
- Familiarity with caching strategies for authentication state (ElastiCache, Redis)
- Experience designing and deploying systems across multi-region architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or similar
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts and data engineering principles
- Background or interest in cybersecurity, fraud detection, or risk management domains
- Exposure to distributed messaging systems or event streaming platforms
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and workflows
How We'll Have Your Back
- Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
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Who's Hiring
- Citi7
- Google3
- Robinhood3
- Airbnb2
- Intuit2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software18
- Banking & Financial Services17
- Investment & Asset Management12
- Construction & Real Estate7
- Retail4
Senior Level Fraud Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level fraud analyst job?
Employers hiring at this level expect candidates who have owned end-to-end fraud programs, not just contributed to them. Demonstrating that you have built or overhauled a detection model, led a cross-functional investigation, or mentored junior analysts sets you apart. Certifications like CFE and hands-on experience with tools like SQL, SAS, or machine learning platforms reinforce technical credibility for senior roles.
Which companies hire senior level fraud analysts?
Companies hiring senior level fraud analysts right now include Citi, Google, and Robinhood, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level tends to come from large financial institutions, payment processors, and technology companies with mature risk and compliance functions that require experienced oversight.
Are there remote senior level fraud analyst jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and function. About 26% of senior level fraud analyst openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, making this one of the more flexible roles in risk and compliance. Fully remote positions are most common in technology-forward companies and roles focused on digital fraud rather than in-person case review.
What makes a fraud analyst role senior level?
Senior level fraud analyst roles are defined by ownership and scope. You are expected to design and refine detection frameworks, make independent decisions on high-stakes cases, and set standards that others follow. The role also carries a leadership component, whether formal or informal, including mentoring junior staff, presenting findings to leadership, and collaborating with legal, compliance, and product teams.
Which industries hire the most senior level fraud analysts?
Senior Level fraud analyst roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Investment & Asset Management, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they operate at high transaction volume, face significant regulatory scrutiny, and need experienced professionals who can build sustainable fraud controls rather than simply respond to individual incidents.