General Information About
Risk Development Unit
The Risk Development Unit plays a critical role in safeguarding the business from fraud, abuse, and malicious user behaviour. Its primary mission is to build efficient and automated risk solutions (instruments) for the detection and prevention of fraudulent activities, either in real time or retrospectively.
Meet Our Team
Andrii Maruschakivskyi
Head of Business Risk Management Department
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Volodymyr Riabukha
Head of Risk Development Unit
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Risk Development Unit
The team develops both analytical tools (BI dashboards) and technical modules (alerts, multi-account functionality, etc.). These tools are deeply integrated with the platform, including sports betting, casino, payments, and bonus systems. It's enabling operational teams to respond swiftly to emerging threats. Special attention is given to both preventive measures (e.g., bonus restrictions, activity limitations when risks are detected) and reactive mechanisms such as alerting and case investigation workflows.
To support its mission, the team continuously evolves its tools to stay ahead of new fraud patterns, enhance detection accuracy, and minimise false positives.
The main functions are:
1. Development of Automated Risk Management Tools
- Design and implementation of systems for detecting fraudulent activity in both real-time and retrospective modes.
- Creation of detection logic for multi-accounting, bonus abuse, payment fraud, and suspicious betting behaviour.
2. Integration with Core Business Platforms
- Seamless integration with key systems: sportsbook, casino, payments, promotion and affiliate engines, etc.
- Ensuring consistent data flow between risk modules and core platforms.
3. Analytical and Monitoring Infrastructure
- Development of BI dashboards and reports to help visualise fraud-related metrics and suspicious user behaviour.
4. Reactive Incident Handling Workflows
- Alerting systems for real-time notification of risk events.
- Support for workflows in fraud case management: case creation, user investigation, and manual verification.
5. Minimisation of False Positives
- Continuous review and optimisation of rule sets and logic.
- Use of scoring models and priority tagging to reduce false alerts and focus on high-risk cases.
6. Adaptation to Evolving Fraud Patterns
- Ongoing research of new fraud schemes and abuse tactics in the iGaming industry.
- Fast deployment of updated detection logic and system enhancements in response to emerging threats.
7. Collaboration with Key Stakeholders
- Close cooperation with Product expert, Risk operations teams to define and prioritise requirements;
- Regular meetings to review progress, validate functionality, and collect feedback;
- Supporting onboarding and knowledge sharing for efficient adoption of risk tools across departments.
8. Cooperation with Development Teams
- Active coordination with backend, frontend, and data engineering teams to deliver expected functionality;
- Participation in grooming sessions, user acceptance testing (UAT);
- Quality control and testing of implementations to ensure alignment with business expectations;
- Task prioritisation in sprints based on business impact and risk exposure.
The current positions are:
1. Head of Risks Development Unit;
2. Senior Business Analyst;
3. Middle Business Analyst;
4. Operational Tester.
Responsibilities of the Head of Risks Development Unit are:
- Lead and manage the development team within the Risk Unit, ensuring high-quality delivery of risk management tools and solutions;
- Define and prioritise product requirements based on business and customer needs;
- Work with stakeholders (business teams, customers, technical experts) to gather requirements and expectations;
- Create and maintain the Product Backlog, write user stories, and define acceptance criteria;
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for risk-related products in alignment with business goals;
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions;
- Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable and secure risk management systems;
- Ensure adherence to best practices in software development, including developing quality, testing, and documentation;
- Collaborate with the development team (developers, QA, designers) to deliver product features;
- Ensure timely delivery of new features and product enhancements;
- Monitor product performance and analyse key metrics (KPIs);
- Conduct market and competitor analysis to identify trends and opportunities for product improvement;
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
Responsibilities of the “Senior Business Analyst” and “Middle Business Analyst” are:
- Interviewing stakeholders, organising and conducting negotiations, recording agreements reached;
- Collection, analysis, formalisation and documentation of business requirements for the development of functionality from interested parties (Product Owners, Stakeholders);
- Verification of business requirements of interested parties, development of an optimal business solution concept;
- Formulation together with the team of the concept of the product or changes in the processes;
- Coordination of business requirements with stakeholders, finalisation of the business concept for the development of functionality\changes in business processes;
- Description and visualisation of business processes/product logic and preparation of proposals for their optimisation (AS IS and TO BE);
- Formation and support of documentation on functional\non-functional requirements for software, dashboards, and reports (specifications, diagrams, user stories);
- Participation in the design of the user interface, format and method of interaction between the user and the program;
- Collaboration with development and design teams during the implementation and testing phases to ensure understanding of requirements. Maintenance of tasks to the release;
- Monitor and support implemented changes. Fixing defects, compiling reports, and setting tasks to eliminate defects;
- Analysing the effectiveness of implemented solutions;
- Conducting demonstrations (demo) for stakeholders and the team.
Responsibilities of the Operational Tester are:
- Participates in planning and documenting basic test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer needs;
- Requirements analysis, creating test documentation (check-lists, bug reports, test cases);
- Reporting found issues (bug reporting) and tracking them until they are resolved;
- Investigate the failures and collaborate with developers to resolve them;
- Test new and existing functionality;
- Reviewing applications in terms of UI/UX, business goals, usability and reliability;
- Together with the team, participate in the creation of new features and services for the operator's workplace Risk direction (igaming)
- Writing instructions for working with new functionality
- User support - operators Risk direction (igaming).
