SAS lead consultant
Job Title: SAS lead consultant
Location: Irving, TX ( 3 days from Office )
Experience Required: Minimum 10 Years
- Analyze SAS programs to understand sources, dependencies, data flow.
- Sanitize SAS programs in preparation for conversion.
- Optimize SAS programs in preparation for conversion.
- Incorporate changes in accelerator to ensure generated code aligns to required standards
- Utilize accelerator to convert SAS programs to PySpark programs.
- Demonstrate and document code lineage.
- Unit Test generated PySpark programs
- Incorporate feedback from PySpark EAP integration, SIT and parity-check.
- Prepare for deployment.
- Experience analyzing and understanding SAS processes and statistical methods to identify trends, patterns, and correlations.
- Proficiency in SAS programming and tools
- Developing and maintaining SAS programs for automation and analysis.
- Proven expertise in Spark, SQL, including data pipeline and notebook development.
- Troubleshooting user issues and resolving system errors.
- Managing SAS jobs and schedules and working with SAS metadata.
- Migration of SAS Jobs, Stored Procedures, SAS Programs, Reports, SAS Datasets, Excel, and CSV files from Development to Production Environment.
- Ensure compliance with data security, privacy regulations, and organizational standards
- Qualifications: 4+ years of experience in SAS Base.
- Exposure to Python, PySpark Development and SQL knowledge is good to have.
- Experience in SAS Mainframe (Good to have).
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data modelling, and ETL/ELT processes.
- Experience with big data processing and distributed computing systems like Spark.
- Proficient in Python and Scala scripting for data manipulation and analysis.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong leadership and team-building abilities.