SAS Architect (Legacy & Viya)
Posted 5 days ago by Smartedge Solutions
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of SAS Architect (Legacy & Viya) involves owning the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. The position requires collaboration with various teams to resolve complex issues and provide design assurance for SAS services. The candidate must have strong experience in SAS architecture, particularly with legacy systems and SAS Viya, and be capable of advising on migration and modernization strategies. SC Clearance is required for this position.
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: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Smartedge’s Client is looking for an individual to help with their SAS Data Architect (Legacy & Viya) @ Telford, UK (Hybrid working)
Key area:
- 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
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
NOTE : SC Clearance Required
If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field. Connect with me or email me at divyasree.n@smartedgesolutions.co.uk Alternatively, you can call me on Tel: +44(0)203 500 2108.