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Senior Risk Analyst

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly motivated individual to join its Risk Operations group. The group's core duties include fraud mitigation, ensuring game and service integrity, research and investigation into game exploitation and abuse/cheating, investigate account take-overs and account security for all of Blizzard Entertainment's online games and services. In short, enforcing our core value of Play Nice, Play Fair!

Responsibilities

• Find, investigate, and enforce our policies regarding exploitation and hacking for our games and services
• Identify trends and patterns, summarize key findings, and provide recommendations on anti-fraud and game integrity processes and system enhancements
• Take initiative to start, manage, and maintain high profile anti-fraud or anti-cheat/exploit projects from start to end
• Take complex data sources and gain actionable insights out of them
• Manage and respond to escalations from internal and external parties within designated service levels
• Educate internal and external parties on fraud and cheat/exploitation issues in gaming
• Provide mentoring to junior Risk Analysts
• Work with the Risk Managers to identify training needs for the Risk Analysts and help organize/facilitate corresponding trainings
• Contribute to the anti-fraud and/or anti-cheat community

Requirements

• Knowledge of current trends in in-game exploitation
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the field of fraud prevention / anti cheat/exploitation
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English
• Strong Knowledge of MS Office, especially of MS Excel
• Knowledge of SQL and scripting languages like Python
• Knowledge of *nix systems and / or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, etc
• Strong self-learning abilities
• Passion for video games

Plusses

• Experience working in the video gaming industry
• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related discipline
• Experience with programming languages such as Java
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery) or Splunk
• Foreign language proficiency
• Current player of Blizzard games