SAS Data Engineer

About the job you’re considering

We are seeking experienced SAS Consultants/Data Engineers to join our growing team within a large, long-standing public-sector partnership. In this pivotal role within our Data Portfolio, you will contribute to helping our client maximise revenues, bear down on avoidance and evasion, and improve and transform systems.

Utilising your SAS expertise, you will help lead development, testing and support of critical solutions in business and technical areas such as fraud detection, data management, business intelligence, application support, and/or analytics. You will work primarily with a product owner, scrum master, solutions architects, and fellow engineers, with regular client and key stakeholder interactions.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business;

it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the

time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:

identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent

criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Design and implement robust, secure and performant SAS-based solutions for data integration and analytics.
• Build, operate and improve data pipelines (e.g., ingestion, transformation, reporting, fraud detection, and analytics) with monitoring, alerting and SLAs.
• Collaborate with product teams and client stakeholders to refine requirements and align decisions to NFRs (cost, performance, security).
• Support incident resolution and ensure service continuity.
• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to Capgemini’s engineering communities of practice.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts and business teams.

Your skills and experience

• Experience as a Data Engineer delivering large-scale, complex data solutions.
• Expertise in building solutions using SAS 9.x and SAS Viya 3.x/4 (ideally tooling such as SAS Studio, Visual Analytics, Visual Investigator, VDMML, Intelligence Decisioning, Environment Manager).
• Solid understanding of data modelling and ETL.
• Experience designing and implementing batch scheduling solutions, including job and flow deployment using Airflow and/or native SAS schedulers.
• Knowledge of SAS performance optimisation, including database connectivity.
• Ability to partner with Architects to design robust, scalable solutions.
• Ability to incorporate CI/CD best practices into development workflows.
• Excellent client-facing and consultancy skills.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a

collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities

that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day,

sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow

their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.