What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a SAS Developer to join our Spain AIA Team.
As a SAS Developer, you will be responsible for improving and writing the business specific program, developing data sets and generate reports in various formats through connecting SAS tool to different sources as input and perform data analysis using the reports created. After the groundwork has been laid, developers must test their designs to ensure the system runs smoothly and optimize wherever required. Furthermore, developers must be possessing skill set to check on what all SAS objects are being currently utilized in the project so that when SAS is planned to be migrated, all its objects must be available on the new environment as required by the Business. A skill set that many employers extensively look for is using Macros and connecting SAS to various data sources, databases, and importing data for transformations and analysis.
This means developers need to be able to read, analyse and digest what a business wants to accomplish with its data, and design the best possible SAS process around those goals. Various SAS tools used are Windows SAS, SAS DI, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Administrator, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Viya etc.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Solution Architect, Business Analysts to understand business requirements, providing expert knowledge and solutions on Data Integration, ensuring delivery of business needs in a timely cost-effective manner.
- Assist in developing project plans, assigning the appropriate technical resources and cost estimations.
- Evaluate and optimize SAS code and design data movement, analytics delivery, data quality and archiving strategies.
- Assess the complexity in various SAS Objects, Libraries, Files and Reports and Connect and Migrate to AWS(Cloud)
- Lead and guide the other SAS developers in SAS development, program tunings and optimization, testing and implementation.
- Provide Post Implementation Support to the Business and suggest for any improvements/optimizations.
Essential Skills:
- Extensive demonstrable experience with a focus on Data Management using SAS
- Excellent knowledge in SAS EBI Architecture.
- Idea of migration & promotional activities in SAS environments
- Knowledge in different SAS Application architecture like SAS Grid, SAS Distributed VA etc.
- Interact with SMEs / Business users to understand the requirements
- Strong understanding of business performance and analytics concepts and applications
- Plan & track work streams for SAS Migration
- Design and prepare technical specifications
- Assist in project artifact documentation in business requirement documents, functional specs, flow charts and system architectures source to target mappings
- Leverage migration work to identify additional opportunities for improvements , including code optimization and automation
- Comprehensive understanding and ability to contribute to all phases of SDLC.
Nice to Have Skills.
- Agile methodology
- Cloud knowledge
What We Offer:
Apart from participating in multiple projects and the opportunity of working with the industry’s latest technologies, Cognizant strives to be a great company to work for and you should expect a competitive base salary and various benefits, such as:
- International working environment with diverse team
- Flexible working hours and hybrid or remote mode.
- Yearly Bonus.
- Training and career development opportunities: Career path locally and internationally. Specific trainings in both technical and soft skills.
- Private healthcare and additional life insurance.
- Gympass.
- A culture of Respect and Human Empowerment.
- Company sponsored activities and partnerships.
- Opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global organization, within multicultural teams.
- Pleasant and inspiring working atmosphere.
- Inclusion and diversity in practice.
- Employee referral program in place.
- Employee volunteering programs and opportunities.
- Access to different internal events, communities and initiatives.
Why Cognizant
Cognizant Technology Solutions (https://www.cognizant.com) leads Digital Transformation initiatives. We work in latest technologies like Cloud computing, Micro-services, Digital Enablement, Machine Learning, Blockchain etc. When you choose this position at Cognizant, you will get opportunity to upgrade your career in the Digital sphere covering Agile, DevOp & Cloud native development. This opportunity will bring you to work with highly skilled and professional teams that are enabling our clients in Azure DevOps, SAFe, Monitoring, Analytics etc.
Cognizant has transformed her clients to deliver the solutions using Digital way of working. In this position, you would leverage your knowledge to shift from traditional way of Agile-DevOps to cloud native adoption. While doing so you will add value to the client for improving productivity, quality, and time to market in a cost effective way. You will be working in highly productive SAFe teams and modernize the software delivery processes while focusing on people and technologies.
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Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Oct 25 2023
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
