*Job Title: SAS Administrator (Healthcare)* *Location*: NYC *Duration*: 6 month contract with very probable extensiion
Interview process: Phone then Skype *JOB DESCRIPTION:* The SAS Administrator's role is to manage Enterprise SAS advance analytics platform which includes but not limited to user support, security, client installs, application server maintenance (hotfix/patch and version management, etc.). This position is involved in the creation of new tables, maintenance of the existing tables, and will be optimizing data mart resources for queries and for reporting purposes. Responsible for administrative access to the environments to support the business users and help to manage user access to the data. This Candidate assists the company's SAS user community with SAS client tools including SAS DI Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide to resolve outstanding issues. *Responsibilities: * - Support creation of the security scheme and implementation of security profiles. - Administration and auditing of user access and security. - Serve as the primary point of contact for SAS to independently assist in troubleshooting all SAS Analytic Tool issues. - Create and maintain user profiles and groups consistent with security restrictions and performance considerations. - Perform ongoing technical assessment of database environments for operational considerations including performance, capacity, redundancy, stability and security. Partner with operational teams on implementations that address issues and productivity. - Provide technical leadership for data warehousing and data architecture for the SAS business intelligence products and systems. Provide insight to the DBAs on Design, development and upgrade of databases, ETLs, schemas, automation of data quality rules, ER designs, naming conventions, optimized queries and indexing. - Provide support of nightly ETL/ELT processes to ensure timely completion and availability of data in data warehouse for reporting use. Analyzes and resolves problems and provides technical assistance as in necessary. - Perform root cause analysis to provide solutions to problems. - Support database capacity and utilization planning. - Analyze project requirements and develop detailed specifications for new and existing SAS data warehouse reporting requirements with the ability to understand performance, quality and schedule considerations. - Design, document and implement usage best practices and guidelines for the SAS platform. - Participate in design reviews and provide input to the design recommendations; provide input to information/data flow, understand and comply with Project Life Cycle Methodology in all planning steps. - Partner with TWAI Operations on defining load balancing, clustering, mirroring, disaster recovery, data archiving, and backup policies and solutions. - Debug, Investigate and fix the issues that may appear in the code running in Production. - Ensure high quality deliverables and smooth day-to-day operations of projects within timely fashion. *Required Expertise: * - 6+ years of experience as a SAS Administrator Understanding of the SAS 9.x Architecture (preferably SAS 9.4) in a multi-tier environment. - 6+ years of experience as SAS system administration encompassing entire SAS suite of tools with in-depth understanding of SAS Grid, application server, web server, web application server, stored process server, in a load-balancing server cluster environment. - Experience with Security and Authentication topics (related to the access of source data, the access of data within SAS on the SAS servers across the different business organizations. - Manage metadata system backups, software upgrades, and maintenance releases, license renewals - Foundation SAS 9.4 - Base SAS programming. - SAS Macro programming. - SAS/ACCESS to multiple data sources (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and ODBC). - SAS Data Integration Studio. - Hands on experience in developing sophisticated data flows. - Hands on experience with various transformations in SAS DI Studio. - Hands on experience with job deployment and scheduling. - Experience with metadata management, project repositories, and job migration through development, test, and production. - Job documentation. - SAS Enterprise Guide. - Experience with SAS software administration; including software configuration, updates, patches, and hotfixes and license renewals as needed. - Experience with SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, and create metadata objects and folder structures. - Must have project experience with implementing advanced SAS coding techniques to optimize performance and have developed best practices for efficient coding due to constraints of hardware storage and memory. - Review SAS system logs to insure metadata and system configuration files for anomalies - Proven prioritization skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet simultaneous deadlines. - Good understanding of back-end services architecture on SAS Compute and Metadata tiers. *Preferred Expertise: * - Good written and spoken communication skills in English. - Strong communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills are mandatory. - Ability to work independently. - Experience and knowledge in HealthCare Service is an added advantage. - Manage and track work effort against a pre-determined timeline. Proactive, self-motivator and team player who works well in a collaborative environment *Regards,* *Manju Shree* *Sr IT Recruiter* *IDC Technologies, Inc. 1851 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 116,Milpitas, CA, USA, 95035* *Phone: 408-418-5779 ext 252 <408-418-5779%20ext%20252> |Fax: 408-608-6088 <408-608-6088> | * *Email: **ma...@idctechnologies.com* <kara...@idctechnologies.com>*| Web: * *www.idctechnologies.com* <http://www.idctechnologies.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP or Oracle Financials" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sap-or-oracle-financials+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sap-or-oracle-financials@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-or-oracle-financials. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
