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Position: SAS Developer
Location: 4100 Okemos Rd, Okemos, Michigan, 48864, United States (2 days onsite; 3 days remote/week)
Top Skills' Details
1) Position requires 5+ years of advanced knowledge of SAS programming and administration. * They want this person to be able to handle both the development and admin side of things.
2) 3+years of relational database concepts and SQL
3) Ability to analyze and resolve complex problems
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves
sas data
base sas
sas
Profile & Description
Work as a member of the Reporting and Data Management team supporting a large conversion project. Programmer will create Excel and PDF reports using Base SAS as described by project requirements documents and test system components as needed.
Duties
Participates in requirements and design sessions, then develops and implements new system components or fixes to resolve system defects using business intelligence software and related tools.
Reads and understands business requirements, seeks clarification to unclear requirements, follows standard change control and configuration management practices and conforms to departmental application development standards and systems life cycle.
Incorporates source code reuse wherever possible.
Sets up and executes component tests as well as tracks and documents system defects.
Participates in software design and programming reviews.
Recommends improvements to design and programming standards, procedures and guidelines.
Perform other related assigned duties as necessary to complete the Primary Job Responsibilities as described above.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
DDMI is in the process of moving off of the SAS platform and onto a new Data Analytics and Insights platform called Looker. These people will be a part of the team assigned with maintaining the current SAS reporting environment and day to day activities while other full time employees look to convert the system to Looker. If these people do a great job in the SAS based environment and show aptitude to pick things up they will have the option to become employees working on the latest data analytics platform.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
1) Ability to work on a long term project for a great organization. They are extremely collaborative and helpful to new employees.
Work Environment
Delta Dental is a very collaborative environment. This group has 3 full time SAS developers and will be bringing on another 3 more to join the team.
Business Drivers/Customer Impact
They are taking 3 SAS FTE's off of day to day support and bringing them on to the Looker implementation team. These people are needed to back fill their efforts.
Why is the position open(provide details)
They have someone who was a full time employee retire and they are looking to backfill his position. The person who retired handles a lot of the administration and so they would like someone who can come in and fill that person's shoes.
External Communities Job Description
This client is looking for one BASE SAS developers/admin for a long term contract role with the thought of a possible conversion full time down the road.
