Role
Senior SAS Consultant (Banking Industry)
Job Summary
The Senior SAS Consultant will be responsible for providing expert-level consulting services to our clients, specializing in the design, development, implementation, and optimization of SAS-based solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of SAS programming, data warehousing, business intelligence, and statistical analysis. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Responsibilities
- Client Consultation and Requirements Gathering:
- Conduct in-depth client consultations to understand their business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Define project scope, deliverables, and timelines.
- Develop detailed functional and technical specifications.
- SAS Solution Development and Implementation:
- Design, develop, and implement complex SAS programs and applications.
- Develop and maintain SAS data warehouses, data marts, and ETL processes.
- Create and optimize SAS reports and dashboards for business intelligence.
- Perform data analysis and statistical modelling using SAS/STAT and SAS/OR.
- Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization:
- Troubleshoot and debug SAS code and system issues.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in SAS applications.
- Optimize SAS code and processes for efficiency and scalability.
- Project Management and Team Leadership:
- Manage multiple projects concurrently, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior SAS consultants.
- Develop and maintain project documentation.
- Participate in project planning and estimation.
- Technical Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
- Conduct training sessions and knowledge transfer to clients and internal teams.
- Stay up to date with the latest SAS technologies and industry trends.
- Contribute to Best practice documentation.
- Business Domain Knowledge:
- Understanding of Financial Regulatory Reporting (Philippines) will be considered an advantage, with working knowledge of the various BSP regulatory reports.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge in more advance facets of data management – including data quality management, data architecture, metadata management and data governance.
- Expertise in reporting/visualization and data preparation components of the tools, such as SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Enterprise Guide, Base SAS, SAS AMO, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or expertise in any of the following data management solutions: Microsoft Integration Services, SAS Data Integration, Talend Data Integration, MapReduce, Python and Spark.
- Expertise in various data stores – which may include RDBMS, NoSQL and Hadoop.
- High proficiency in understanding and writing queries to the data stores.
- High proficiency in database models and/or data preparation strategies for analytics.
- Capacity to continuously establish a deeper understanding of the best practices for development of work products for data management or reports/visualization.
- Good communication and technical writing skills
Education, Certifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience as a SAS Consultant, with a proven track record of successful project delivery i.e. in data management and reporting/visualization.
- Has participated in multiple projects with exposure on multiple foundation solutions wherein the understanding of the end-to-end perspective has been reinforced – which can be various tools from a specific vendor or multiple tools from different vendors.
- Experience in more advanced/complex use cases such as Big Data and advanced analytics and data streaming or real-time scenarios.
Number of Vacancies
1