Corp- Corp Jobs: Urgent Need of SAS programmer-Analyst

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Urgent Need of SAS programmer-Analyst

Hi,

Trust you are doing well!!

My name is Anupam with Priserve Consulting Inc, and I am an IT Recruiter. here is the requirement mentioned below. Please respond with Resume, Rate and Phone numbers of the Consultant. Make sure the Consultant's skills match the requirement. Reply ASAP

REQUIRMENT:

Title: SAS programmer-Analyst
Location: San Jose, CA
Contract: 6+months(renewed quarterly)

-They need someone with customer facing experience. They don’t want someone with clinical background. The want someone with experience with performance improvement with very large datasets in SAS. Someone with good communication skills.

-The client is looking for a SAS programmer-analyst with the following summary of competencies / skills we need:
-Looking for someone that could be the technical leader in a small project, facing our partners in other teams, etc...
- Strong oral communication skills in English are absolutely fundamental
- A minimum of 4 years commercial experience working as a SAS Analyst / Programmer in a SAS 9 environment;
- SAS Base Programming certification would very appreciated (Advanced Programming is a very desirable asset).
- Considerable experience with Data Mining environments;
- Significant experience and strong skills in the data manipulation of hundreds of millions of records using SAS Base, SQL, SAS Connect and SAS macros;
- Knowledge of SAS performance improvement techniques and features (and methodology) for improving the performance of SAS programs / jobs;
- Significant experience with conducting programming and data quality checks and validation;
- Considerable experience with best practices of SAS program documentation and versioning;
- Significant experience working remotely as part of a geographically disperse team;
- Able to attest self motivation and a strong ability to meet deadlines in a collaborative, project focused environment. Recommendation from previous employers/clients is a must;
- Experience with Dun & Bradstreet data is a very interesting asset as is a formal Statistical background;
- Comfortable with defining technical specifications to be used by other programmers, checking and validating their implementation / work.