SAS Data Engineer

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 practiceKey skills and experience

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.

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