About:
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Contract: 6 months
The Role: SAS Admin and Architect
- SAS Office analytics SAS Enterprise guide SAS Data integration studio SAS Cost and profitability management from finance background.
- Overall responsibility for the effective operation of the SAS Analytics Environment
- Work with users providing advice on the best practice for the creation of analytics processes, programs or models to best utilize the SAS environment
- Via SAS Management Console, control user access to various parts of the SAS system, granting permissions to read, write, create or view reports and data within the system - ensure that users see only the information that they are authorized to access
- Working with the Development team
- Responsible for the maintenance of in-place programs
- Manage all SAS product installations and upgrades
- Configure SAS products and SAS output channels
- Research and make recommendations on hardware and SAS software
- Investigate, escalate, and resolve all SAS production support incidents in accordance with the Production Support Process
- Maintain and execute disaster recovery procedures as needed Architect skills
- Experience in supporting high memory SAS environments that are enterprise wide and serve multiple business units
- Strong knowledge of relational database design and data warehouse best practices
- Expert SQL skills, Oracle, MySQL, Teradata
- Expert knowledge of SAS analytic capabilities that include statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling and data mining
- Good understanding of systems, networking, and storage
- Experience installing SAS software and patches in UNIX environment Must have:
- Expert in SAS
- Strong in SAS Management Console, access control
- SAS installs, upgrades, patches (UNIX)
- Advanced SQL (Oracle, MySQL, Teradata)
- Data warehouse & relational DB design
- SAS analytics: stats, forecasting, modeling, mining
- Finance domain exposure
- Disaster recovery & production support