SAS Administrator

Experience : 7+ Years

Role : SAS Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

SAS Administration

• Manage and maintain the SAS 9.4/Viya platform, including user management, security roles, and system monitoring.

• Ensure the stability and performance of the SAS environment through regular system maintenance, upgrades, and performance tuning.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to SAS application services, and server performance. Implement best practices for data governance, security, and compliance across the SAS platform.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure clear communication and successful project delivery.

• Work closely with stakeholders from various business areas to understand their reporting needs and provide solutions that add value.

• Conduct UAT sessions and provide ongoing support to end-users to maximize the adoption and usage of SAS.

• Plan & collaborate across different application teams to manage technical and functional dependencies of the solution.

• Collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements .

• Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager (PM)/ Program Manager on functional deliveries.

• Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards.

• Partner with Development Manager in managing application teams to build the enhancements.

• Ensure completion of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results.

• Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions.

Documentation and Change Management

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including technical specifications, system configurations, and user guides.

• Manage the change process, ensuring that all changes to the SAS platform are thoroughly tested, documented, and approved before implementation.

• Maintain version control and ensure proper documentation of all development changes.

• Prepare and manage technical implementation plan across application teams - coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or similar domain
• Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Strong knowledge of SAS 9.4/Viya server architecture.

• Experience in managing large-scale SAS platform , including performance tuning and system monitoring.

• Installation and configuration of SAS 9.4/Viya Platform.

• Experience in migrating SAS 9.4 platform to SAS Viya including SAS objects and data migration.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

• Experience with documentation and change management processes

• Good track record in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility.

• Working closely with stakeholders to develop practical domain roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while considering business, technical and delivery constraints

• Experience in Singapore Government industry preferred

• Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery

• Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience

• Good understanding and experience in software development cycle

• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders

• Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills.

The following experience is a plus:

1. SAS Visual Analytics

2. Python Programming

3. SAS Text Analytics

4. Natural Language Processing

5. Node JS

6. Html/css

7. Pandas scikit-learning

8. Linux

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAS certifications (e.g., SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, SAS Data Scientist, etc.).

• Experience in financial services, healthcare, retail, or other data-driven industries.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for SAS deployment