SAS Developer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

PBT Group has an opportunity for a SAS Developer.

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Duties:

• Enable and drive data migrations across different data lake platforms within different technologies, for example Oracle, SAS and Big data.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis of data from organization databases, write SQL scripts, procedures, packages, functions, and views.
• Develop SAS processes following existing standard structures and macros.
• Perform unit, system and regression testing for SAS programs for quality assurance
• Continually identify deficiencies in production processes, propose enhancements, and implement those enhancements to increase productivity or reduce manual effort
• Assist the testing team to develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs.
• Maintain organizational intellectual property through documenting of solutions on the organization’s wiki platform.
• Adopt a proactive approach to prevent problems from arising in the future
• Collaborate with assigned business units to understand their business intelligence needs and devise possible solutions.
• Participate in design and peer reviews
• Work together with key business unit stakeholders to prioritize projects and data requests
• Create ad-hoc reports/data extracts from organization database
• Interpret data and develop relevant recommendations based on data analysis findings

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Experience:

• Education: a 3-year diploma or higher in the related field of study for example Computer Science or Information Technology.
• At least 5 years’ experience as a SAS Engineer with experience in development and maintenance support
• Experience with SAS BASE, Enterprise Guide (EG), Event Stream Processing (ESP), Visual Analytics (VA) and Data Integration (DI) are required
• Minimum 2yr experience in SAS application maintenance and SAS Management Console (SMC)
• Experience in dealing with large data sets in Hadoop / Oracle / DB2
• Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Knowledge of Unix and/or Linux operating systems
• Experience in shell /batch scripting
• Application packaging and deployment experience across DEV to PROD environments
• Experience in maintenance reporting and managing change / service requests.
• Knowledge and experience in end-to-end project delivery, either traditional SDLC or agile delivery methodologies (or hybrid approaches)
• Dashboarding experience with Power BI is desirable
• Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Exceptional communication, documentation, and presentation skills
• Telecommunications experience

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