Job Description
SAS Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Active SC Clearance
£650 - £700/day (Inside IR35)
12 Months (Likely to extend)
Remote working with once a month in Manchester or Blackpool
Our Central Government client is looking for a SAS Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide deep technical domain expertise to guide the re-platforming of Legacy SAS analytics workloads and ensure the seamless migration of underlying data into a modern cloud data warehouse.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture and Strategy: Advise on SAS system architecture, data flows, and optimal cloud re-platforming approaches.
- Migration and Validation: Define data migration and validation frameworks in close collaboration with the Data Engineering team.
- Design and Documentation: Support high-level (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) documents, along with knowledge base articles for SAS components.
- Data Assurance: Ensure absolute data integrity across migration phases and dual-running periods.
- Technical Guidance: Mentor, guide, and support SAS engineers and installers throughout delivery.
Key Skills and Experience
SAS Expertise: Comprehensive, subject-matter level knowledge of SAS platforms and analytics environments.
Cloud Re-platforming and ETL: Proven track record in complex ETL design, data flows, and migrating Legacy SAS workloads into cloud data warehouses.
Data Migration and Validation: Deep experience in large-scale data migration, dual-running validation, and data integrity testing.
Knowledge Transfer: Strong capability in documenting technical architectures and upskilling engineering teams.
Informatica knowledge: This role will also need a working knowledge of Informatica for ETL/data-integration pipeline. Ensuring that they are correctly re-engineered and data is migrated reliably into the cloud data warehouse.
SC Clearance: Active SC Clearance is required