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[KMM Murthy]

Dear SAS Consultants.

 

This is Murthy and I am working with KMM Technologies Inc. No sooner this new opportunity came open we wanted to notify you. Perhaps you or someone you know can impact the future of this job. Check it out.

If you are actively or passively searching for new opportunities, I would like to make you aware of a Multiple SAS roles with  our clients, I will be happy to discuss what you may be looking for in your next role and what this position will offer your career.

Our client is targeting a start date on this role as soon as possible and they are currently scheduling interviews. A description of the position is included below and I will be happy to discuss this role in greater detail and learn about your expertise in the area at your earliest convenience. To learn more, please do not hesitate to reach back out to me at 240-800-0046 or please respond back to my email at the earliest.

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Requirement 1:

Position: SAS Platform Administrator

Duration:3-6 month contract 

Location: Auburn Hills, MI, with possible extension. 

Work Location Auburn Hills, MI - 100% onsite. Candidate will need to relocate.

Rates Hourly rate requested for working FT, M-F

Will clients interview the candidates

Yes. The candidate will be interviewed by the SAS Technical team, and then by the customer.

Any Certifications required? - SAS Platform Administration

- BASE Programming

- SAS Architecture and configuration

Candidate Demographic US Citizens, Green Card Holders or H1B Visas

This candidate should have experience administering the SAS Platform in a Linux environment. This candidate should have all the general SAS Administration experience including adding users/groups, defining 

permissions/security, configuring authentication, creating libraries and database connections, as well as performing root cause analysis for troubleshooting problems. This resource should be able start and stop SAS servers and examine logging and configuration files. Customer has multiple independent environments: (1) Customer Analytics; (2) Model Risk Management; (3) Enterprise SAS which encompasses a large SAS footprint of tools such as BASE, STAT, IML, ETS, etc. Environments (1) and (2) are RedHat Linux. Environment (3) is mixed between Windows and Linux with eventually complete migration to Linux. Customer has licensed SAS/GRID which will eventually need to be installed and configured in environment (3). Therefore, experiencing installing, configuring and administering SAS/GRID is a benefit.

 

Primary Skill set Experienced SAS Platform Administrator

- Experience administering SAS 9.4 in a Redhat Linux environment

- Ability to perform all tasks related SAS Platform Administration including but not limited to:

- Creating users, groups and roles.

- Creating both SAS and database libraries

- Securing metadata according to customer security standards

- Stopping and starting servers

- Working within SAS Midtier

- Troubleshooting and problem resolution

- Experience administering and working with following products:

- SAS/Access products and configuring to connect RDBMS servers

- SAS/Enterprise Guide

- SAS/Enterprise Miner

- SAS/BASE, IML, STAT, ETS

- SAS/Model Risk Management 

 

Requirement 2:

Job Title SAS Administrator

Start Date April 18

Contract Duration 3 months

Hours per week 40 hours per week

Customer Location Charlotte NC

Work Location 100% on site in Charlotte NC

Certifications Required None. SAS Administration certification helpful.

Demographic Requirements U.S. Citizen, Green Card, H1B Visa all accepted

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

One of our client is seeking a SAS ADMINISTRATOR to work with our customer, a large sized energy company in North Carolina. Work location is Charlotte NC.

The consultant will be responsible for the following:

• Perform SAS software administration including software configuration, updates, patches, and hotfixes and license renewals as needed.

• Manages metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.

• Manage, monitor, and tune performance for five (5) SAS environments.

• Uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, create metadata objects, creating metadata folder structures.

• Manages permissions to metadata objects.

• Integrate SAS environment with various security tools including Centrify.

• Advise customer’s IT administrators on identification and diagnosis of issues within the environment.

• Acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues with the SAS environment.

• Assist with administration tasks for Linux (RHEL 6.x).

• Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational database systems, including Oracle, DB2, and other data sources.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services.

• Other SAS administrative tasks as required.

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

• Bachelor degree in related field such as computer science, information science, or data science, or statistics.

• Experience implementing and supporting SAS software.

• 3 years of experience doing SAS administration. Experience with SAS 9.4 is a must.

• Experience installing and configuring SAS software, implementing hotfixes, and software patches.

• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services.

• Experience with SAS Management Console – adding identities, defining libraries, setting permissions and access controls, creating metadata folder structures.

• Experience with migration of metadata objects across SAS environments.

• Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including:

• Supporting users of SAS clients such as SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS DI Studio, SAS Enterprise Miner, and the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office

• Experience administering SAS in both a Windows a Linux environment.

• Strong problem solving abilities.

• Competence in Microsoft Office.

QUALIFICATIONS – PREFERRED

• Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including:

o SAS Analytics Pro including Base SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH

o SAS/ACCESS to Oracle, DB2, ODBC, OLE DB. Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server.

o SAS Data Management Advanced

o SAS Business Rules Manager

o SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager

o SAS Visual Analytics

o SAS Marketing Optimization

o SAS Decision Manager and Real-Time Decision Manager

• Experience with migration of SAS metadata across multiple environments.

• Experience in the energy Industry.

• Good written and spoken communication skills in English.

Candidates may be subject to a drug screening and to a criminal background check

 

Requirement 3:

Position: SAS Platform Administrator with Grid

Duration:3-6 month contract 

Location: Auburn Hills, MI,& Monterey, CA & Kentucky 

Work Location Auburn Hills, MI ,& Monterey, CA & Kentucky - 100% onsite. Candidate will need to relocate.

Rates Hourly rate requested for working FT, M-F

Will clients interview the candidates

Yes. The candidate will be interviewed by the SAS Technical team, and then by the customer.

Any Certifications required? - SAS Platform Administration

- BASE Programming

- SAS Architecture and configuration

Candidate Demographic US Citizens, Green Card Holders or H1B Visas

This candidate should have experience administering the SAS Platform in a Linux environment. This candidate should have all the general SAS Administration experience including adding users/groups, defining 

permissions/security, configuring authentication, creating libraries and database connections, as well as performing root cause analysis for troubleshooting problems. This resource should be able start and stop SAS servers and examine logging and configuration files. Customer has multiple independent environments: (1) Customer Analytics; (2) Model Risk Management; (3) Enterprise SAS which encompasses a large SAS footprint of tools such as BASE, STAT, IML, ETS, etc. Environments (1) and (2) are RedHat Linux. Environment (3) is mixed between Windows and Linux with eventually complete migration to Linux. Customer has licensed SAS/GRID which will eventually need to be installed and configured in environment (3). Therefore, experiencing installing, configuring and administering SAS/GRID is a benefit.

 

Primary Skill set Experienced SAS Platform Administrator

- Experience administering SAS 9.4 in a Redhat Linux environment

- Ability to perform all tasks related SAS Platform Administration including but not limited to:

- Creating users, groups and roles.

- Creating both SAS and database libraries

- Securing metadata according to customer security standards

- Stopping and starting servers

- Working within SAS Midtier

- Troubleshooting and problem resolution

- Experience administering and working with following products:

- SAS/Access products and configuring to connect RDBMS servers

- SAS/Enterprise Guide

- SAS/Enterprise Miner

- SAS/BASE, IML, STAT, ETS

- SAS/Model Risk Management 

Requirement 4:

Job Title SAS Administrator (including administrative experience with Hortonworks, SAS Data Loader for Hadoop, and Distributed Visual Analytics)

SAS Customer Large oil & gas company

Contract Duration 3 months with estimated 3 months renewal.

Possibility of contract-to-hire.

Hours per week 40 hours per week

Customer Location Many global locations

Work Location Remote expenses separate if have to go onsite

Certifications Required None. SAS Administration certification helpful.

Demographic Requirements U.S. Citizen, Green Card, H1B Visa all accepted

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

One of our client is seeking a full time SAS ADMINISTRATOR to work with our customer, a large sized international oil and gas services company. Work location is remote.

The consultant will be responsible for the following:

• Perform SAS software administration including software configuration, updates, patches,and hotfixes and license renewals as needed.

• Supporting over 100 users of various SAS technologies.

• Manages metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.

• Manage, monitor, and tune performance for multiple SAS environments.

• Uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, create metadata objects, creating metadata folder structures.

• Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational database systems, including Hortonworks, SQL Server, and other ODBC data sources.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services.

• Integrate SAS environment with various security layers to ensure proper authentication is in place for data access.

• Manages permissions to metadata objects.

• Advise customer’s IT administrators on identification and diagnosis of issues within the environment.

• Acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues with the SAS environment.

• Assist with administration tasks for Linux (RHEL 6.x) and Windows servers and Windows workstations.

• Other SAS administrative tasks as required.

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

• Bachelor degree in related field such as computer science, information science, or data science, or statistics.

• Experience implementing and supporting SAS software.

• 3 years of experience doing SAS administration. Experience with SAS 9.4 is a must.

• Experience installing and configuring SAS software, implementing hotfixes, and software patches.

• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services.

• Experience with SAS Management Console – adding identities, defining libraries, setting permissions and access controls, creating metadata folder structures.

• Experience with migration of metadata objects across SAS environments.

• Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including:

o SAS Visual Analytics (in a Distributed environment)

 SAS LASR Server

o SAS Visual Statistics

o SAS In-Database Technologies for Hadoop

o SAS Data Loader for Hadoop

o SAS Office Analytics

 SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office

 SAS Enterprise Guide

o SAS DQ Server Advanced

o SAS DQ Desktop

 SAS Data Management Studio

• Experience administering SAS in both a Windows a Linux environment.

• Strong problem solving abilities.

• Competence in Microsoft Office.

QUALIFICATIONS – PREFERRED

• Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including:

o SAS Visual Statistics

o SAS/OR

o SAS Demand Driven Planning and Optimization

o SAS Asset Performance Analytics

• Experience in the energy Industry.

• Good written and spoken communication skills in English.

Candidates may be subject to a drug screening and to a criminal background check.

 

Requirement 5:

Position: Senior SAS Advanced Programmer

Start Date Middle of March, 2016

Duration: 3 months to FTE

Location: Deer field Beach, FL

Hours Per Week 40 hours per week

Number of Resources 1

Working Location 100% onsite

Citizenship Requirements US Citizen, Green Card, Canadian TN

 

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

One of our client is seeking a full time Senior SAS Advanced SAS Programmer to work with our client, a Retail client in Deer field Beach, FL. The consultant will assist the client to automate, design and develop SAS programs, reports, graphs and visualizations. The consultant will use SAS Enterprise Guide, BASE SAS, Macros, ODS, SAS/Graph to develop the reports and graphs. The consultant must have excellent communication skills and must be able to communicate about the techniques developed and results of analysis both to executives and other analysts in the organization.

 

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

 Experience developing reports and content with SAS 9.4 including:•

o Apply and demonstrate expertise with efficient DATA step, SQL programming and SAS Macro programming.

o Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of SQL pass through or PROC SQL), as well as the SAS Macro language for use in making code more efficient.

o SAS is running on a LINUX platform. So, the consultant must have LINUX expertise and scripting experience.

o Leveraging and utilizing SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) experience is preferred.

o Knowledge of coding SAS/Graph output

o MS-SQL Server and Teradata experience is preferred.

o Utilizing Enterprise Guide and its functionality to create project flows which could include aspects of data access, manipulation, summarization, and report generation to a variety of output formats and channels, etc.

 Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership skills•

 

Requirement 6:

Position: SAS Data Integration Architect / Developer

Location: Detroit, MI -- 100% on-site, Full-Time / 40 Hours / week , Mon -Fri.

Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire

Job Title

Senior SAS Data Integration Architect / Developer. Technical Lead for architecting, designing and implementation of a SAS Data Warehousing project. Contract-To-Hire: MUST BE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE BEING HIRED DIRECTLY BY THE CLIENT AT THE END OF CONTRACT ENGAGEMENT – the client expects you to be their employee after the 6 month temporary contract Job Request for

Senior SAS Data Integration Architect/Developer to be the technical lead on implementing a SAS Data Management Solution. Senior SAS DI Developer will be responsible for Enterprise Data Warehouse and mapping data from multiple sources (including MS-SQL Server, flat files, Excel), building and implementing the data flows and loading the data into a SAS Analytical/Reporting Data Mart. The consultant will be required to design/develop the data model for the SAS Analytical/Reporting Data mart for optimal efficiencies. The candidate will have demonstrated experience in using DI Studio, MS-SQL Server, SAS Metadata Administration and good communication skills providing updates to the Data Warehousing team.

 

Required Knowledge,

Skills, Qualifications &

Job Description:

The Senior SAS Data Integration Architect/Developer to the technical lead in architecting, designing and implementing the SAS Data Management Solution. Senior SAS DI Developer will be responsible for Enterprise Data 

Warehouse and mapping data from multiple sources (including MS-SQL Server, flat files, Excel), building and implementing the data flows and loading the data into a SAS Analytical/Reporting data mart. The consultant will be required to design/develop the data model for the SAS Analytical/Reporting Data mart for optimal  efficiencies. The candidate will have demonstrated experience in using DI Studio or Data Management Studio, MS-SQL Server, SAS Metadata Administration and good communication skills providing updates to the Data Warehousing  team. This position will be responsible for 1) gathering data requirements and designing/developing the Data Warehouse/ Data Marts and 2) performing analytical and programming activities including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and documentation of integrating the data management solutions, 3) functioning as subject matter expert for using SAS Data Management Solution (Data Integration Studio or Data Management Studio). Successful candidates will possess: 1) experience in designing and developing Data Warehouses and using SAS Data Management Solution tools, 2) strong understanding of standard development methodology (Systems Development  Life-cycle) for both implementation and maintenance projects, 3) thorough understanding of and experience in structured programming methodology, 4) skill in gathering and documenting user requirements and writing technical specifications, 5) proven customer relationship skills, 6) strong SAS 9.4 DI tools, SQL and MS-SQL Server knowledge.

Skillets: The Client requires a Senior SAS DI consultant.. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, with hands-on, proven experience with SAS programming to maintain and develop advanced SAS coding techniques to write maximum efficient and performance

optimized code. Services may include focus on and require the Consultant to:

1. SAS DI Studio and/or Data Management Studio experience a must. Experience in Data Integration/Management Studio, developing sophisticated data flows.

2. 6 years or more of SAS Data Warehousing implementation experience and experience developing technical solutions with SAS Data Integration and reporting tools in a SAS environment.

3. Data Modeling and Data Architecting expertise is required.

4. Proven skill in gathering and documenting user requirements and writing technical specifications and design documents.

5. Integrating and managing the data mappings from the client’s data sources (mainly MS-SQL Server) to the SAS Data Warehouse using SAS Data Management Solution. 

Designing, developing and implementing the DI Studio job flows to load the data into SAS.

6. Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of SQL pass-through or PROC SQL), as well as the SAS Macro language, ODS, Reporting and Summary procedures and SAS Array processing for use in making code more efficient.

7. MS-SQL Server DBMS experience.

 

Requirement 7:

Position:  Real Time Decision Manager Developer

Duration: 5 months – 20 Weeks

Hours Per Week 35 hours per week

Location: Kansas City, MO

Working Location 50% onsite; 50% remote

Citizenship Requirements US Citizen, Green Card, Canadian TN, H1B Visa

 

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

One of our client is seeking a full time SAS Real Time Decision Manager (RTDM) Developer to work with our client, a tax services company in the Kansas City, MO. The consultant will assist the client to architect, design and develop SAS RTDM to automate and enhance real-time analytics for high-volume and execute focused, consistent strategies across channels. The consultant must have excellent communication skills and must be able to communicate about the techniques developed and results of analysis both to executives and other analysts in the organization.

 

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

 Must have experience using SAS Real Time Decision Manager (RTDM) in a distributed•

environment.

 Experience preferred with SAS Digital Marketing.•

 Experience preferred with SAS Marketing Automation.•

 Experience preferred with Customer Intelligence Studio.•

 Experience preferred with SAS Model Manager.•

 Experience with SAS Visual Analytics is a plus.•

 Oracle RDBMS experience is preferred.•

 Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership•

 

Requirement 8:

Position: SAS Data Integration Consultant *** Must have strong experience with DI Studio ********

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Duration: 3-4 Months Contract to Hire

Description

Background:

The Customer requires an experience SAS Data Integration consultant (client prefers experience with SAS Data Integration Studio 4.9)

Specific Requirements:

a. Mid to senior level resource, 5+ years experience

b. Must know SAS Data Integration Studio (Prefers DI Studio 4.9 exp)

c. Nice to have SAS Enterprise Guide.

d. Must be able to build and maintain SAS DI Studio jobs, job flows within

Platform LSF, and troubleshoot job failures.

e. Must be able to perform both production support role as well as new development tasks.

f. 5 years or more of Data Warehousing implementation experience and experience developing technical solutions with SAS Data Integration in a SAS environment.

g. Data Modeling, Data Architecting and ETL architecting expertise is required.

h. Integrating and managing the data mappings from the client’s data sources (mainly MS-SQL Server) to the SAS Data Warehouse using SAS Data Management Solution.

i. Designing, developing and implementing the DI Studio job flows to load the data into SAS.

j. Ability to develop new data loads to existing data warehouse.

k. Creating Stored Processes to provide the users easy access to the data.

l. Have good oral and written communication skills.

m. Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities.

n. Must be able to read, and understand existing coding and processing to troubleshoot and resolved issues as they arise.

Thanks & Regards,

Krishna Murthy

KMM Technologies, Inc.

SBA 8(A), MD/DC MSDC and VA SWaM Certified 

Tel: 240-800-0046 | Fax: (866) 856 3684

E-MAIL: mur...@kmmtechnologies.com