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Primary Responsibilities:
• Ensures the overall health of the SAS platform
• Applies maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as required
• Designs solutions to reduce the operational and management complexity of the platform
• Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS)
• Performs platform capacity planning and management
• Serves as an escalation point for escalated production and/or platform issues.
• Establishes best practices and guidelines for usage of the SAS platform
• Works effectively in both team member and individual contributor roles
Analytical Requirements:
• Drive ROI for LOB/Enterprise by managing an end to end SAS solution that requires an analytical tool that only SAS can provide.
• Be able to translate a customer’s business needs to a specific analytical solution.
• Have a firm understanding of the capabilities of the SAS analytical procedures.
• Be a thought-leader in the area of analytics/data science with respect to entity resolution as it pertains to the customer's mission.
• Be able to generate written documentation of all work performed and utilize Project Management techniques and tools to plan and monitor project progress
• Desired candidate will have 7+ years in an analytical role
Specific Technical Requirements:
• Firm understanding of SAS products, the skill set of team needed to support consulting needs.
• SAS EDI, SAS EBI, BASE SAS, Enterprise Miner, SAS MO, Forecast Server, Text Miner, Contextual Analysis, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Viya
General Technical Skillsets:
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production issues
• Assisting in development/maintenance of process automation
• Superior customer service skills
• Familiarity with Unix shell scripting and SAS Macro facility
• Ability to multi-task and address complex support issues in a mixed technology environment
Top 3 required technical skill-sets:
SAS Administration / Engineering experience Linux operating system Performance monitoring
About ApTask:
We are rapidly growing IT consulting firm supporting a strength of 350+ employees spread throughout the United States. Our present clientele includes numerous Fortune 100 companies from the Financial Services, Retail, Media and Services Industries amongst many others which spells an eloquent testimony of our success. We were recently ranked #14 in New Jersey, #46 for IT Services nationwide by Inc500|5000, made it to Best of US Diversity Staffing firms two years in a row. We were also honored by NJBiz as one of the Best Places to work in New Jersey.
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