SAS Programmer Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA - local candidates required
Position Type: Hybrid (2 days per week onsite) for the first month and then flexibility for remote
Contract Length: 1 Year
Position Overview:
The SAS Developer should have expertise in SAS Enterprise Guide, visual analytics, and data conversion strategies for the Medicaid Enterprise Solution (MES). This role requires onsite presence at the client's office in Richmond, VA, two days per week for the first month, with potential flexibility thereafter. Candidates must attend in-person interviews and comply with onsite work requirements. Responsibilities include developing automated data extracts, analytics dashboards, and reporting solutions while collaborating with stakeholders and managing multiple priorities effectively.
Duties:

• Identifying data sources and data elements to meet business requirements
• Creating and supporting automated data extracts and interface processes
• Creating extract files, reports, analytics dashboards
• Modifying existing processes to meet business requirements
• Designing, developing and testing solutions that meet complex business requirements
• Working with business users to understand requirements
• Working independently and collaboratively with other team members and stakeholders at all levels of the
• organization
• Working on multiple assignments concurrently and meet important target dates

Required Skills:

• 5 years of experience with SAS Enterprise Guide, visual analytics for data analysis and reporting
• 5 years of experience with data architecture, data integration, data visualization, reporting, and process automation
• 5 years of experience with SAS (programming), R, PL/SQL
• 5 years of experience with Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server
• 5 years of experience with ETL tools, Business Analytics tools
• 5 years of demonstrated ability to design, develop and test solutions for complex solutions that meet user and agency requirements
• 5 years of development experience using Software Development Life Cycle methodologies
• 5 years of experience communicating verbally and in writing with technical colleagues and business users
• 5 years of experience providing accurate estimates of effort and duration to complete assignments
• 5 years of experience creating documentation to include technical design, flow diagrams, test results and user documentation
• 1 year of experience working with SAS scheduler
• 2 years of experience creating CI/CD pipelines and software build automation in one or more platforms. (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline)
• 2 years of experience with GIT version control software and GIT workflows

Preferred Skills:

• 5 years of experience with Data Warehousing, ETL Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Modeling, Data Governance
• 5 years of experience with Production Support and issue resolution
• 2 years of experience with MongoDB
• 1 year of experience with SAS Viya
• 1 year of experience with SAS Administration
• 1 year of experience with Qlik
• 2 years of working knowledge of JSON, XML, multi-schema files, parquet, etc.
• 1 year of experience with Talend