- Company Name
- EXL
- Job Title
- Solutions Developer – Independent SAS Consultant
- Job Description
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Job Title: Solutions Developer – Independent SAS Consultant
Role Summary: Deliver end‑to‑end SAS‑based analytics solutions for the banking and financial services domain. Lead design, development, deployment, and maintenance of reporting, forecasting, and data‑management systems on SAS Grid / SAS Platform 9 (and optionally SAS Viya). Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, well‑governed data pipelines and analytical frameworks, leveraging SQL, Hadoop, Databricks, and Python where required.
Expectations: • Produce high‑quality, reusable analytics and reporting solutions that meet business objectives.
• Maintain and optimise SAS environments and data pipelines, ensuring performance, security, and compliance.
• Act independently in complex scenarios, proposing pragmatic solutions beyond standard platform capabilities.
• Deliver projects on time, within scope, and with clear documentation and stakeholder communication.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy analytics, forecasting, reporting, and data‑management solutions for banking use cases.
- Build and maintain SAS Grid / SAS Platform 9 environments, including integration with Hadoop ecosystems.
- Develop, manage, and optimise ETL processes and data pipelines across SQL‑based sources, Databricks, and Python scripts.
- Produce and maintain high‑quality reports and reusable reporting modules aligned to business needs.
- Support strategic analysis and insight generation to drive informed decision‑making.
- Deliver project support: planning, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and progress tracking.
- Continually optimise analytics and BI environments, implementing enhancements and best practices.
Required Skills:
- Proven SAS Grid / SAS Platform 9 (SAS P9) expertise with hands‑on development.
- Advanced SQL skills for large, complex datasets.
- Strong background in analytics, forecasting, reporting, and data‑management.
- Data modelling and design of reusable analytical/reporting frameworks.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Structured project delivery experience (project/workstream management).
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and independent work capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
Desirable: SAS Viya experience, Databricks, Python, data‑engineering collaboration.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Finance, or related field.
- SAS Base/Advanced Programming certification (desired).
- PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner certification (desired).
Northampton, United kingdom
Hybrid
10-02-2026