Data Architect

Summary: The Data Architect role in Telford requires a seasoned professional with extensive SAS expertise to lead the architecture and design of enterprise-scale SAS solutions. The position involves defining integration patterns, providing architectural governance, and shaping migration strategies from SAS 9.x to Viya. The role demands active SC clearance and offers a hybrid working arrangement with two days onsite per week. This is a six-month initial contract with a maximum rate of £644 per day inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture and design of enterprise-scale SAS solutions across legacy SAS and modern SAS Viya environments.
• Define integration patterns with enterprise data warehouses.
• Provide architectural governance and shape migration strategies from SAS 9.x to Viya.
• Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams, platform specialists, and suppliers.

Key Skills:

• Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead.
• Hands-on expertise with Base SAS, SAS Grid, and SAS 9.x.
• Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses.
• Experience in large-scale or highly regulated environments.
• Active SC clearance.
• SAS Viya experience (nice to have).
• Cloud platform exposure (AWS, Azure, GCP) (nice to have).
• Data lake/lakehouse knowledge (nice to have).
• Experience with legacy-to-Viya modernisation (nice to have).

Salary (Rate): £644 per day

City: Telford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT