Data Architect = SC Cleared
Posted Today by Whitehall Resources
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
West Midlands
Summary: The Data Architect role requires an SC Cleared professional to design and oversee SAS-based solutions within legacy and Viya environments for an initial 6-month contract in the West Midlands. The position emphasizes governance, integration, and modernization strategies while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. The candidate will collaborate with various teams to resolve complex issues and ensure data quality and security. This role is classified as inside IR35.
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
- Experience supporting or designing modernisation journeys from legacy SAS to Viya
- SAS Viya (cloud or containerised environments)
- Exposure to cloud platforms
- Familiarity with data lake / lakehouse patterns alongside traditional warehouses
- Experience working in multi-supplier or federated delivery models
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: West Midlands
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Data Architect = SC Cleared
Ref: BBBH67042_1780913222Data Architect – SC Cleared
Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Data Architect in the West Midlands for an initial 6-month contract.
***MUST BE SC CLEARED***
***INSIDE IR35***
Job Spec:
Main 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
Required 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
Desirable Skills:
- Experience supporting or designing modernisation journeys from legacy SAS to Viya
- SAS Viya (cloud or containerised environments)
- Exposure to cloud platforms
- Familiarity with data lake / lakehouse patterns alongside traditional warehouses
- Experience working in multi-supplier or federated delivery models
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
