*Job Title: SAS Programmer/ Migration Consultant Location: Can sit onsite in Princeton, NJ, or work remote from anywhere in the US Duration: 4 Months* ** ***Not looking for Clinical Trail Programmers*** ** *Required Skills:* *This large pharmaceutical / CRO company needs assistance migrating many SAS programs / projects from a variety of different internal environments to a new hosted environment. The internal environments include programs maintained in Unix, Windows NT and PC SAS environments—many from different sites in different countries. As such, programming standards will differ at these different sites / countries. So, when these programs are to be migrated into the new hosted environment, each program must adhere to the same processes. This requires the majority of the migration activity to be the consultant going through the existing code, following a migration plan, which would identify which data sets and programs go to which directories, and then document and perform library name changes within the code……and….. perhaps removing library names in the code, because that’s not standard, and converting to native SAS any Operating System-specific commands within the code to work within the new environment, and changing PROC’s related to switching from OLEDB to PC File Formats, as an example, and taking care of such things as X Commands, and testing and validation of the migrated code (comparing programs, code & logs to see if they match from the old to the migrated environment)—not too extensively, however, and in general, the data files (SAS data sets, flat files, Excel, maybe Oracle Clinical) will be moved by the customer (and not the consultant), but it is possible the consultant may need to do some file transfer activity. Much of the existing code could have been created during SAS V6---it is a lot of old hand-written batch code, with no process flows. Also, in some cases, they are moving up from SAS v 8.2 to 9.1.3 to 9.2. And they are moving up from 32-bit to 64-bit machines. EG is used as an alternative front-end to Display Manager within their NT environments. PROC’s involved will be standard statistical ones within STAT (not EM), and also Base and GRAPH. Heavy use of macros in the code; some stored processes may exist; but no SQL Pass-thru.* ** *Specific Technical or Soft Requirements: Ability and experience migrating and testing migrated SAS code, as defined above. Strong technical communication skills—because the client is global, you must be able to technically communicate clearly and effectively (primarily in writing, but somewhat verbally) with non-U.S. based sites that may have staff with English as their second language. (Asia being a predominant area.)
* *Very Truly, Ethan Hunt |Sr. IT Technical Recruiter CAT Technology Inc. 411 Hackensack Avenue,7th Floor Hackensack, NJ 07601. Email : [email protected] [email protected] Voice : 201 257 5081 ext 151 | Fax:(201) 342-2385. Visit us at: www.catamerica.com | www.cattechnologies.com* <http://www.cattechnologies.com> -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CBE-Software-Engineer?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CBE Software Engineer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
