SAS Data Engineer
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Deerfoot Recruitment is working with a major consultancy partner on a long-term public sector engagement and is seeking experienced SAS Consultants/Data Engineers to join a growing data team. This is a key role within a large-scale data portfolio, supporting critical programmes focused on revenue optimisation, fraud detection, data management and analytics. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in designing, building and supporting robust SAS-based data solutions, working closely with product owners, architects, engineers and senior client stakeholders., * Designing and delivering secure, high-performance SAS solutions for data integration and analytics
- Building and enhancing data pipelines covering ingestion, transformation, reporting and fraud detection
- Supporting live services, incident resolution and continuous improvement
- Collaborating in Agile delivery teams and contributing to engineering best practice
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years experience as a data engineer or similar role
- Strong background as a Data Engineer on complex, large-scale data platforms
- Proven expertise with SAS 9.x
- (SAS Viya (3.x/4) bonus to have)
- Solid ETL, data modelling and batch scheduling experience
- Understanding of performance optimisation, CI/CD and scalable solution design
- Confident client-facing and consultancy skills
Security Clearance: This role requires SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it. Applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past 5 years. Some restrictions may apply based on nationality and residency. This is an excellent opportunity to work on high-impact public sector systems within a collaborative, technically strong environment.
