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.