SAS Administrator (Jr/Mid-Level)

At TAYS we strive to create an environment where our people come first. We call our employees members to reinforce that all who join our team are considered company owners and are empowered to share in the rewards and challenges that come from building a world-class business. As one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world, we realize our continued success depends on our ability to attract and retain top-quality professionals—like you.
Become part of a team to help a large government agency support research and statistics efforts that help agency officials make recommendations on reforms.
Work is being conducted remotely during COVID safety measures with an eventual return to onsite work once pandemic conditions have passed. **This position is located at the client site in Woodlawn, MD**
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advice and assist stakeholders in the use of data analytics tools, techniques for SAS modules installed on the SAS product platform.
• Develop policy and procedures for the data analytics platform.
• Administration duties such as creating users, groups, defining libraries, databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server/others), creating security scheme, implementing security profiles, configuring SAS tools on the platform, applying hot-fixes issued by SAS as appropriate, a monitoring platform for operational status and resources, monitor security access to the platform, etc.
• Serve as the End User point of contact for any SAS Analytic Tools support cases, which will help to troubleshoot analytic tool issues for our users, especially those interfacing with SAS.
• Develop solutions including complete projects, proof of concepts, or code snippets as appropriate. Work with users to understand and define project security, data, and operational requirements.
• Interface and coordinate activities pertaining to SAS between the technical team, users, and management.
• Provide knowledge transfer to others.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree with 3-6 years of experience OR Bachelor's degree with 7+ years.
• Hands-on experience with SAS tools deployed on SAS product including eGuide 7.13.
• Hands-on experience with support of SAS VIYA.
• Experience using SAS DI studio and ETL workflows.
• Experience extracting data on mainframe using JCL and SAS Connect.
• Experience with taking business requirements, translating them into technical requirements, and then to convert to Implementable SAS solution.
• Proven experience in developing functional applications and systems of medium to high technical complexity is required.
• Expert use of SQL, experience with relational databases including DB2 and MS SQL Server.
• Be a proactive self-starter.
• General knowledge of project management.
• Excellent communication skills and be effective technical writers.
• Knowledge must include architectural design, web part development, management and troubleshooting with a focus on planning, deploying and supporting implementations at an Enterprise-scale.
• Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and able to meet deadlines

Job Type: Full-time