Sr. SAS Developer

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Role: Sr. SAS Developer

Duration: 12 months

Location: Columbia, SC

VISA Requirement: Must be authorized to work in the US. 

DESCRIPTION And RESPONSIBILITIES

SAS is seeking a full-time SAS Senior Advanced Developer with strong Healthcare domain

experience to work with our client, a Healthcare department for the State of South Carolina.

Qualifications Essential

The Customer requires a Senior Advanced Base SAS programmer. Essential duties and

responsibilities include the following, with hands-on, proven experience with SAS programming

to maintain and develop advanced SAS coding techniques to write maximum efficient and

performance optimized code.

A minimum of Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Business

Administration, or a related field is required and equivalent work experience required.

Minimum of 6+ years' experience of SAS\SQL programming experience.

Analytical Programming experience in SAS as well as experience with SAS Studio, SAS

Enterprise Guide and SAS Visual analytics

Relevant experience in the Healthcare industry preferred (commercial or govt).

Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities.

Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of SQL

pass-through or PROC SQL), as well as the SAS Macro language for use in making code

more efficient.

Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership skills.

SAS Product Knowledge

SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Studio

SAS Visual Analytics (VA)

Skillset

SAS Base Programming

SQL

Excellent Communication Skills

Detailed Oriented

Works well on a team, and also works independently with minimal guidance once fully on-boarded to a project.

Preference: Healthcare Industry Experience

Knowledgeable on ETL processing

SAS 9.4 Base Programmer Certification

Linux

Major Responsibilties/Activities

Services may include focus on and require the Consultant to:

Apply and demonstrate expertise with efficient DATA step, SQL programming, SAS Macro

programming, ODS, Reporting and Summary procedures and SAS Array processing.

Must have project experience with implementing advanced SAS coding techniques to optimize

performance and have developed best practices for efficient coding.

Must have project experience with sophisticated Base SAS development for performance

enhancement and advanced SAS Dataset storage best practices.

Have good oral and written communication skills.

Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities.

Must be able to read, and understand existing coding and processing to troubleshoot and

resolved issues as they arise.

Demonstrate the ability to work with little direct supervision; Excellent troubleshooting skills;

Imaginative, inquisitive, with a self-motivating personality and a strong work ethic; Customer

focused demeanor.

Gathering data requirements and designing/developing the Data Warehouse/ Data Marts

Performing analytical and programming activities including analysis, design, development,

testing, implementation, and documentation of integrating the data management solutions

Enhances client's datamarts and the enterprise data warehouse by working closely with

internal and external teams. Participates in strategic planning to improve the organization's

ability to produce reports and data requirements for end-users.

Provides production, development, QA support and performance tuning as needed to meet

project deadlines.

Creates 'Best Practices' guidelines for creating and maintaining SAS projects/programs;

participate in peer reviews for designs, code, and other work products.

Provides production, development, QA support and performance tuning as needed to meet