SAS Specialist

Job description

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for motivated and tech-passionate people to:

·  Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with business and technical members of the team
·  Relentless focus on quality and continuous improvement
·  Perform root cause analysis of reports issues
·  Development / evolutionary maintenance of the environment, performance, capability and availability.
·  Assisting in defining technical requirements and developing solutions
·  Facilitating data integration, data conformity, data integrity and ensuring data structures are designed for flexibility to support future business needs and enhancements.

What we offer

Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, infusing innovation into enterprise systems. You will access latest education (online courses, class trainings, and other professional learning platforms), tools and technologies, in order to boost your career within the world’s technology leader company.

You will have the opportunity to access technical and leadership certification programs, clear career paths that enhance your growth mindset and guarantee your professional achievements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Proven experience in designing and building complex solutions based on SAS Platform
·  Proven experience in supporting technical teams in identifying and solving issues related to the Platform SAS
·  Experience on data modeling concepts and related standards
·  Advanced SQL programming, PL/SQL or T-SQL

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Agile mindset - ability to process changes of priorities and requests, ownership, critical thinking One of the following:
·  Experience with Data Governance tools
·  Experience with a business intelligence tool (e.g. Power BI, SAP BI, Oracle OBIEE, SAS Visual Analytics/ Viya)
·  Experience with various cloud and integration platforms (e.g. AWS, Google, Azure)

Availability to travel is an additional mandatory prerequisite.