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Title: SAS Administrator
Location: St Louis MO
Duration: Long Term
Job Overview:
SAS Administrator /Developer - Leads major projects and creates the development and delivery of quality software solutions in a timely and cost effective manner. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs and SAS customer base. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the requirements of SLA’s. Provides support for SAS customers by trouble shooting problems with SAS applications/ environment and providing technical solutions. Provides support of SAS applications software by providing software upgrades, patches, and routine maintenance to monitor and improve performance.
Major Accountabilities:
•Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications. Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, quantify costs, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints. Partner with business to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions. Develop business case in alignment with the MasterCard objectives. Lead scenario planning process and creation, validation and review of estimates, costs and benefits. Actively look for opportunities for Innovation and creative problem solving. Make presentations to the Senior Management, Business Owners and other Stakeholders and help them in decision making process.
•Perform Proofs of Concepts (PoCs) to assess and identify the technologies per the needs of the organization. Provide recommendation to Senior Management on selection of technologies and strategic technical direction for the department. Lead creation of roadmaps that align with the department strategy and long term business vision and objectives. Coach and mentor team members, enable knowledge sharing via brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks.
•Lead implementation of processes and supporting tools per the evolving needs of the organization. Identifying process gaps, provide estimates for business solutions, define the initial scope/requirements of the project and manage the scope during the lifecycle of the project. Plan overall project scope as well as define scope for each phase and iteration to meet business needs/time-to-market needs.
•Define and Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Ensure compliance to quality methodology and development of quality metrics by the team. Create guidelines, processes and standards to ensure high overall quality of product and incident free deployment.
•Instruct and guide the team to ensure that appropriate processes and documentation is in use by the team. Ensure compliance to the defined standards. Actively look for opportunities to modify and enhance standards per the needs of the department. Develop documentation templates, lead and enforce development of artifacts throughout the solution development lifecycle.
•Ensure compliance of Audit Requirements by proactively educating team on Compliance Requirements and Integrating Compliance Requirements in SDLC. Represent team during Compliance Audits.
Education:
•Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
·MUST HAVE 6+ years’ experience in SAS Administration using BI Architecture, META DATA Server, Applying patches and upgrades and delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred.
·MUST HAVE an extensive SAS coding background
·Expert with SAS Platform/Grid Administration 9.x Architecture
·Expert with BASE SAS Programming (SAS Macro Language, SAS ODS, Proc Report, Proc Tabulate, SAS Client tools (i.e. WRS, IDP, EG, etc.).
·Experience with Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner client tools, SAS Personal login Manager.
·Experience with Data Warehouse and relational data modeling design
·Extremely detail-oriented and able to follow clear methodologies for troubleshooting and development.
·Ability to support and work within standard software development life cycle practices including Agile Unified Process or extreme programming.
·Excellent SQL skills and demonstrate ability to write complex SQL for purposes of analyzing data and/or evaluating how information needs might be translated into backend database structures.
·Preferred Unix scripting and security knowledge
•Extensive understanding of and experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies. 8 plus years of experience with software engineering methodologies is highly desirable.
•Proven track record in selection and implementation of methodologies with focus on Lean methodology, delivery of High Efficiency Solutions leading to productivity gains is required.
•Demonstrate MC Core Competencies.
•Experience in vendor relationship management, vendor selection, RFI/RFP process, SOW is highly desired.
•Proven ability to embody MC Leadership Principles.
•Proven capacity to lead and influence matrix based project team members and work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team. •Experience in operations environment is highly desirable.
Skills/ Abilities:
•Must be politically savvy, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment. Possess the ability to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
·Possess a strong work ethic, self-starter, creative, a focus on customer services and high level of energy.
•Demonstrate ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
•Must display strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and leadership and relationship skills with ability to influence others without having direct authority.
•Proven ability to sell solutions, persuade cross-functional group, garner support for solutions and bring group to a consensus and strong ability in collection and formulation of data, development of Metrics and dashboard reporting.
Thanks & Regards
Hemanth M
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SYSTEL INC | Atlanta, GA
Office: +1-678-825-3301
Toll Free: +1-888-8SYSTEL (879-7835) x 321
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