Sas Administrator

**Experience**: 7+ Years

**Role**: SAS Administrator

Key Responsibilities:
**SAS Administration**
- Manage and maintain the SAS 9.4/Viya platform, including user management, security roles, and system monitoring.
- Ensure the stability and performance of the SAS environment through regular system maintenance, upgrades, and performance tuning.

**Stakeholder Management**
- Serve as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure clear communication and successful project delivery.
- Work closely with stakeholders from various business areas to understand their reporting needs and provide solutions that add value.
- Conduct UAT sessions and provide ongoing support to end-users to maximize the adoption and usage of SAS.
- Collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements.
- Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager (PM)/ Program Manager on functional deliveries.
- Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards.
- Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions.

**Documentation and Change Management**
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including technical specifications, system configurations, and user guides.
- Manage the change process, ensuring that all changes to the SAS platform are thoroughly tested, documented, and approved before implementation.
- Maintain version control and ensure proper documentation of all development changes.

**Required Skills & Qualifications**:
**Education**
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or similar domain
- Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory.

**Technical Skills & Experience**
- Strong knowledge of SAS 9.4/Viya server architecture.
- Experience in managing large-scale SAS platform, including performance tuning and system monitoring.
- Installation and configuration of SAS 9.4/Viya Platform.
- Experience in migrating SAS 9.4 platform to SAS Viya including SAS objects and data migration.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
- Experience with documentation and change management processes
- Good track record in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility.
- Working closely with stakeholders to develop practical domain roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while considering business, technical and delivery constraints
- Experience in **Singapore Government**industry preferred
- Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience
- Good understanding and experience in software development cycle
- Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders
- Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills.

The following experience is a plus:
1. SAS Visual Analytics

2. Python Programming

3. SAS Text Analytics

4. Natural Language Processing

5. Node JS

6. Html/css

7. Pandas scikit-learning

8. Linux

Preferred Qualifications:

- SAS certifications (e.g., SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, SAS Data Scientist, etc.).
- Experience in financial services, healthcare, retail, or other data-driven industries.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for SAS deployment