Data Architect (SAS) (SC Cleared)
Posted 1 week ago by Hays Specialist Recruitment
£670 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Telford, UK
Summary: The role of Data Architect (SAS) involves owning the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions for a major UK Government branch. The position requires active SC clearance and entails a hybrid working arrangement, with two days on-site in the West Midlands. The contract is for six months, focusing on providing design assurance and governance for SAS services. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments.
- Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards.
- Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS.
- Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms.
- Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya.
- Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs.
- Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues.
- Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead.
- Hands-on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x).
- Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses.
- Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
Salary (Rate): £670 per day
City: Telford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Your new company
We are currently working with one of the largest global Technology consultancies who are partnered with a major, key UK Government branch on a number of projects.
This organisation plays a huge part in the digital transformations and progress of many organisations spread across the public and private sectors - in this case they have a long standing relationship with one of the biggest Government branches in the UK and support them by providing solutions to help them hit their technological goals.
The contract on offer is for a 6 month contract
This will be a hybrid working role - working on site in the West Midlands 2 days per week
Please note - to be considered for this role you must hold active and current SC clearance that has been used by an organisation in the last 12 months
Your new role
Own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments
Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards
Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS
Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms
Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya
Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues
Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality
What you'll need to succeed
Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical
Lead Hands-on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x)
Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses
Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
What you need to do now
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