SAS Developer📣 Job Ad

About the Role: SAS Developer

Hastraa Consulting Services is seeking a SAS Developer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires a professional with strong hands-on experience in the SAS analytical platform. The role combines SAS development, data engineering, platform administration, application support, and production troubleshooting to maintain and optimize the SAS environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor the SAS platform, application services, jobs, and server performance daily.
• Troubleshoot SAS job failures, data processing issues, financial data errors, and connectivity problems.
• Provide L2/L3 technical support to data scientists, risk analysts, business users, and application teams.
• Manage SAS users, roles, access permissions, and environment configurations, supporting development, testing, and production environments.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain SAS programs, macros, data workflows, and ETL processes using Base SAS, SAS Macro, PROC SQL.
• Extract, transform, validate, and load data from multiple relational databases and other data sources.
• Develop SAS datasets and analytical data models to support business and risk reporting requirements.
• Review and optimize existing SAS code to improve performance, scalability, and execution efficiency.
• Automate recurring data-processing and operational activities using Unix/Linux shell scripting and scheduling tools.
• Provide timely resolution of production incidents involving SAS applications, data, interfaces, and batch processes.
• Investigate data discrepancies and determine whether issues originate from SAS programs, source systems, databases, or interfaces.
• Maintain technical documentation, support procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in SAS development and/or SAS platform/application support.
• Proficiency with SAS architecture, tools, and environment.
• Good understanding of database concepts, joins, subqueries, data validation, and performance optimization.
• Experience with SAS job scheduling, batch processing, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of application support, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to analyze SAS logs and identify errors/root causes.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience. Experience in the Banking, Financial Services, or Microfinance sector is highly preferred, particularly in areas such as credit risk, loan portfolios, financial reporting, or financial data processing.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a consulting services environment.

Application

Qualified candidates are invited to apply.