Sr. SAS Developer

ATLANTICUS•Wilmington, DE

About The Position

Senior SAS Developer – Credit Card Marketing Execution When you join Atlanticus, you become a member of a fast-growing, mission-focused company that is committed to aid in meeting the financial needs of middle-class Americans. With a culture of collaboration and a one-team mindset, we encourage entrepreneurial thinking to empower our customers toward financial well-being. Atlanticus™ technology enables bank, retail, and healthcare partners to offer more inclusive financial services to everyday Americans through the use of proprietary analytics. We apply the experience gained and infrastructure built from servicing over 20 million customers and over $40 billion in consumer loans over more than 25 years of operating history to support lenders that originate a range of consumer loan products. These products include retail and healthcare, private label credit and general-purpose credit cards marketed through our omnichannel platform, including retail point-of-sale, healthcare point-of-care, direct mail solicitation, digital marketing, and partnerships with third parties. Additionally, through our Auto Finance subsidiary, Atlanticus serves the individual needs of automotive dealers and automotive non-prime financial organizations with multiple financing and service programs. Office Locations Wilmington, DE – Near the Riverfront, offering rich history, dining, entertainment, and shopping. With direct access to I-95, Amtrak, and SEPTA, employees enjoy flexible living options. Work Culture We foster a collaborative, innovative environment where everyone contributes to building something meaningful. You’ll be empowered to lead, grow, and make an impact. Senior SAS Developer The Atlanticus Centralized Execution and Standards (ACES) team is responsible for the end-to-end execution, governance, and optimization of marketing campaigns supporting both customer acquisition and existing cardholder engagement across our Credit Card portfolio. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior SAS Developer with deep expertise in Credit Card products and targeted marketing campaigns. This individual will serve as a technical leader within ACES, translating complex marketing strategies into scalable, controlled, and production-ready campaign executions. The role requires mastery of SAS programming, advanced data manipulation, campaign targeting logic, and a strong understanding of credit card lifecycle marketing (prospect acquisition, activation, spend engagement, cross-sell, retention, etc.) This position plays a critical role in ensuring precise audience selection, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and continuous optimization of campaign performance.

Requirements

10+ years of advanced SAS development experience in a production environment.
Extensive experience supporting Credit Card marketing campaigns (both acquisition and existing customers).
Deep expertise in campaign/list generation, segmentation logic, and large-scale data processing.
Strong understanding of eligibility rules, suppression logic, and regulated marketing environments.

Responsibilities

Translate acquisition and portfolio marketing strategies into detailed technical specifications and executable SAS code.
Develop and maintain advanced SAS programs to generate accurate, compliant target audiences for marketing campaigns.
Extract, manipulate, and validate large internal and external datasets (including bureau and transactional data).
Ensure strong campaign controls, suppression accuracy, eligibility logic, and audit documentation.
Conduct post-campaign analysis and recommend targeting optimizations to improve performance and ROI.
Partner closely with Marketing, Risk, Compliance, and Operations stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve execution efficiency.