SAS Data Engineer

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)

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• 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.
  

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• 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.
  

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

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• Declare they have a disability, and
  
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
  

Please opt in during the application process.

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.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will reimagine what's possible: creating value for the world's leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

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.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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