Senior SAS Developer

Project description

Join our Development Centre in Bucharest and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on SAS developer. The role is suited to someone who can work across the full solution lifecycle: requirements clarification, technical analysis, SAS development, data integration, testing, release implementation and production support. The successful candidate will combine deep SAS capability with sound Data Warehouse and banking-data experience, and will be comfortable working in a regulated environment with multiple business and technology stakeholders. For this role, office attendance is 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance and maintain SAS applications, batch processes, ETL workflows, data marts and reporting components.
• Translate business, reporting and data requirements into robust technical designs and maintain clear solution documentation.
• Develop and optimize SAS programs using SAS Base / SAS 9.x and, where applicable, SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide.
• Integrate, transform and validate data from relational databases and upstream systems using SAS and SQL.
• Investigate data-quality, performance and processing issues; identify root causes and implement sustainable fixes.
• Own developer testing and contribute to system, regression, release and production-validation activities, including evidence and defect resolution.
• Support controlled releases through impact assessment, implementation planning, deployment checks and post-release validation.
• Provide production support for SAS jobs and reporting flows, including incident analysis, recovery, problem management and operational improvements.
• Collaborate closely with business analysts, QA, application support, database, infrastructure and upstream/downstream teams.
• Contribute to modernization and decommissioning activities by analysing dependencies, removing obsolete interfaces or code, and preserving reporting continuity.
• Improve maintainability through coding standards, reusable components, automation, monitoring and knowledge documentation.
• Participate actively in Agile planning, estimation, refinement, peer reviews and delivery governance.

SKILLS

Must have

• The role requires strong hands-on SAS Base / SAS 9.x experience, SAS Data Integration Studio / Enterprise Guide, SQL and data warehousing expertise, ideally with experience supporting business-critical applications in a banking or similarly regulated environment.

Nice to have

N/A