SAS Developer Job Description

SAS Developer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a SAS Developer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate efforts with corporate systems admin on cross domain issues and problem;
  • Perform sanity checks post deployment to ensure smooth production;
  • Partner with Insights, Modeling and reporting teams to deploy jobs in production;
  • Set up scoring process using SAS scoring accelerator for Hadoop;
  • Write extensive SAS codes to automate processes, reports and model scoring;
  • Should have Basic knowledge of different SAS Merge technique;
  • Ability to provide alternate efficient solutions as applicable;
  • Provide alternate efficient solutions, as applicable;
  • Report daily to Strategy and Implementation Teams regarding the results of the strategy execution;
  • Experience in using Set Statements, how to Format and informat data;
  • Strong knowledge of SAS with previous programming experience;
  • Understand the requirements & Use-cases provided;
  • Able to understand the user requirements and Use cases provided;
  • Work with business partners to resolve defects identified; ensure all issues are resolved in a timely manner;
  • Experience with SAS/BASE (Data step programming) and SAS/SQL or other relational database software (e.g., Oracle).

Requirements:

  • Experience with ETL tools such as Talend is a plus;
  • Minimum 5 years of experience SAS programming, including but not limited to SAS/STAT, SAS Macro and Advanced SAS programming functions;
  • Minimum 2 years of practical experience working with SAS Unix shell scripting to schedule job using Cron and actively managing the entire job flow;
  • Experience in extracting, loading, cleansing & manipulating data in a SAS environment;
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, such as BigQuery and Datalab is preferred;
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal;
  • Experience with creating data layers and data models in Hadoop ecosystem is a plus;
  • Minimum 2 years of experience scheduling production jobs with SAS Management Console;
  • Self-driven;
  • Strong persuasion, facilitation and influencing skills;
  • Experience working in Client environment;
  • Experience of 8-10 years, with strong experience on SAS;
  • SAS Certified Base Programmer, preferred. SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, preferred (Not Required);
  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree required;
  • Deadline and closure oriented.