SAS Developer/Analyst

London, England

£30000 -£50000
27/01/2012
Permanent
ARM

SAS Analyst Developer - Central London - SAS, DI Studio, Enterprise Guide, SAS ETL

A fantastic opportunity to join this highly regarded team as a SAS Developer/Analyst for this globally recognised employer.

The role:
To respond to and resolve or escalate incidents from analysts.
To run and support the delivery of risk profiles and "Hotlists", providing support and escalation where required
To carry our support service administration tasks, such as adding new users to the system.
To perform quality checking to ensure that any code submitted into the Live system runs efficiently and there are no impacts on existing processes.
To support the running of Connect Business Intelligence (CBI) layer ETL processes
To provide continuous monitoring support during service hours of the integrity of the builds and highlight potential issues/ health warnings to owning teams
To perform continual process improvement
To run specified monthly extracts on time, in sync with the BI data acquisition schedule.
To provide release management support
To investigate scheduling failures affecting the Data Acquisition and Networking system for Network and Index production and ACE (Analytical Compliance Environment) for SAS Analytics environments, and provide ongoing assistance to resolve these matters.
To provide support to the daily VAT refresh and risk rules build

Person Profile:
Ability to work at an energetic pace in order to respond to deadlines is essential
Good communications skills both written and oral
Team player
Reliability

Business Skills:
Client facing
Excellent communication skills, well organised and proactive

Technical Skills:

Essential:
Strong communication and client facing skills
SAS BI Suite 9.1.3 (including SAS Enterprise Guide)
SAS Admin
Team player
Ability to work under pressure
Flexibility - ability to handle change and provide out of hours support when required
Multi tasking

Desirable:
Awareness scheduling tools, e.g. Maestro
Experience with Base SAS and Macros development
Experience of Unix shell scripting
SAS code review and optimisation
Remedy Action Request System (EARS)
Business analysis skills
SAS solution design
Supervisory/mentoring experience