SAS Engineer (Local Candidates Only)

Description:
The Engineer is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs, as required, to support the technical capabilities at our website. To be successful in this role one must be able to work effectively in a fluid, fast-paced environment. This role requires good communication skills, both with team members and business contacts. In addition, the successful Engineer must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
Develop new or maintain existing programs based on specifications
Develop, implement and maintain unit tests of programs
Participate in the design of new or changing programs
Participate in functional test planning and testing for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
Share knowledge by effectively documenting work
Stay current with changes in the technical area of expertise
Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
Work with the team to ensure the quality of the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
Respond quickly and effectively to production issues and taking responsibility for seeing those issues through resolution.
Mentor less experienced Engineers

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• 3-6 years experience in relevant technologies
• 5-7 years of experience
• Must have experience with large volume of data (ie 50 million rows/day)
• Environment is Unix (he/she prefers experience with this), open minded if they have a Mainframe background but won't be interested in those who are PC or Linux only
• Would like candidates to have experience with SAS ACCESS (which provides the connections to Oracle/Teradata)
• should have experience with reporting from relational databases (ie Oracle, Teradata)
• Must be experts in de-bugging reports, diagnosing SAS logs, searching root causes from production code, SAS coding on complex reports