SAS Technical Engineer

SAS Technical Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior SAS Engineer to support a major SAS migration initiative from Cloudera to AWS. This role focuses on hands-on analysis, remediation, and testing of SAS code to ensure seamless compatibility with AWS-based data sources. Working closely with technical leads, architects, and business users, the Senior SAS Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring functional accuracy, performance stability, and successful business sign-off throughout the migration life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAS migration activities from Cloudera (HDFS/Hive) to AWS.

• Oversee reconfiguration of SAS Servers, metadata, libraries, and connectivity points.

• Analyse and redesign SAS jobs referencing HDFS/Hive to AWS-based equivalents.

• Manage prioritisation, planning, and progress tracking for 1,000+ SAS jobs.

• Collaborate with business SMEs to coordinate testing and formal sign-offs.

• Validate SQL compatibility and ensure output consistency between Cloudera and AWS.

• Provide technical leadership and ensure timely issue resolution.

• Engage with senior stakeholders and provide regular migration status reporting.

• Mentor and guide onshore and offshore SAS engineers.

Mandatory Skills

• Expert-level SAS and SQL.

• Strong stakeholder management and project leadership skills.

• Proven experience delivering SAS platform migrations (Cloudera - AWS preferred).

Secondary Skills

• AWS exposure.

• Strong understanding of the Cloudera ecosystem (Hive, HDFS).

Interested to know more about this role, please contact Mark Bradshaw