Data Engineer - Active SC, SAS Viya Migration

Key Skills & Requirements

• Active SC Clearance held by a Government Agency.
• Strong experience designing, building and optimising ETL/data integration pipelines using SAS Data Integration, Pentaho, Talend or similar tools.
• Proven experience working with SAS 9.4, SAS Viya 3.x and/or SAS Viya 4, ideally supporting migration or transformation projects.
• Expertise in data migration, data transformation, validation, data quality management and performance tuning within large-scale environments.
• Strong hands-on skills with SQL, Python and Scripting for data processing and automation.
• Experience developing automated data workflows and integrating pipelines into CI/CD environments using Git, Jenkins and DevOps best practices.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services, cloud-native architectures, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting and governance controls to ensure data integrity, security, GDPR compliance and operational resilience.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, integration patterns and scalable data platform design.
• Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, business analysts and test teams to support migration, UAT and production readiness activities.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Desirable

• SAS and/or AWS certifications, experience within government or highly regulated environments, and knowledge of Denodo or other data virtualisation technologies.