Migration Lead - SAS to Databricks
Full-time
Mphasis
Role Summary
Migration Lead with strong SAS background to drive an end‑to‑end SAS to Databricks modernization program . The individual will own discovery, migration strategy, execution planning, and governance , working closely with business stakeholders, SAS SMEs, and Databricks engineering teams to ensure functional parity, performance validation, and scalable cloud adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Migration Leadership & Governance
- Lead SAS to Databricks migration initiatives across discovery, PoC, pilot, and production scale phases
- Act as the primary migration authority , coordinating between business, data engineering, and platform teams
- Define migration waves, dependency mapping, rollout strategy, and risk mitigation plans
SAS Estate Discovery & Assessment
- Perform SAS inventory analysis , covering:
- SAS Base programs, Macros, PROC SQL
- Statistical / actuarial models
- SAS datasets, external data sources, scheduled jobs, and batch dependencies
- Identify business‑critical logic, regulatory reporting, SLA‑bound workloads , and transformation complexity
Migration Strategy & Execution
- Define target‑state architecture on Databricks (Azure or AWS) aligned with best practices
- Drive conversion approaches:
- SAS → PySpark / Spark SQL
- Handling SAS quirks, data type handling, null logic, numeric precision, and edge cases
- Oversee implementation across Dev / Test / Prod , including CI/CD and environment promotion
Validation & Quality Assurance
- Ensure functional equivalence between SAS and Databricks outputs:
- Record counts
- Aggregations
- Statistical results and reports
- Validate non‑functional requirements : performance, scalability, cost efficiency
- Review data migration quality dashboards / observability and exception reporting
Stakeholder & Client Engagement
- Work directly with business custodians of SAS models to ensure no loss of analytical flexibility
- Present migration progress, risks, and outcomes to client leadership and data governance forums
- Support pre‑sales conversations, solution walkthroughs, and scale‑up planning when required
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