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SC Cleared

6-month Contract | Inside IR35


We’re looking for an experienced SAS Data Engineer to join our team on a 6-month contract, supporting the delivery of high-quality data integration and analytics solutions. This role is ideal for engineers with strong SAS Viya or SAS 9.4 expertise and experience operating in secure, enterprise-scale environments.


Role Overview

As a SAS Data Engineer, you will:

  • Design and implement robust, secure and high-performing SAS-based solutions.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, analytics, reporting) with monitoring, alerting and SLAs.
  • Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to shape requirements and align with performance, cost and security standards.
  • Support incident resolution and contribute to operational stability.
  • Share knowledge and work closely with multidisciplinary Agile teams.


What We’re Looking For

2+ years’ experience delivering SAS-based analytics or data engineering solutions.

Hands-on knowledge of SAS Viya and/or SAS 9.4 (Linux/Unix).


Experience developing analytics solutions using tools such as:

  • SAS Enterprise Miner
  • SAS Visual Data Mining & Machine Learning
  • SAS Visual Investigator
  • SAS Visual Analytics
  • SAS Studio / SAS Programming / CAS Programming
  • SAS Intelligent Decisioning / Decision Manager
  • Experience working with structured and unstructured data and contributing to data model/design.
  • Exposure to databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Hadoop, SQL Server, DB2 or Teradata.
  • Cloud awareness (ideally AWS).
  • Active SC Clearance (required).


Contract Details

  • Duration: 6 months
  • IR35: Inside IR35
  • Location: Telford (1 day per week onsite)
  • Clearance: Active Security Clearance (SC) is essential

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