SAS Developer

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• Position: SAS Developer
• Duration: 1 Year+
• Location: Cupertino CA 95014

Job Description and Responsibilities

• This position supports the development of advanced analytic capabilities that inform business decisions for worldwide Sales and Finance.
• Significant experience with SAS base and macro programming for the Advanced Analytics, Sales Planning & Operations team.
• This position will be responsible for developing core analytic capabilities that support the team through the modeling process.
• Specifically, the position will:

• (1) develop scripts in SAS to support the global modeling team with critical data (e.g. ETL, analytic functions).
• (2) support the team with tactical model setup, pre-model diagnostics, and standard model specs for hand-off to final iterations and delivery.
• (3) run and optimize baseline algorithms for market event detection.
• (4) support the team with post-model assessments (e.g. model fits), developing tools to assist senior modelers with residual analysis
• (5) develop data visualization solutions to enable data and model discovery.
• (6) perform SQL development in Teradata via SAS pass-through.

• The candidate should also have deep experience with SQL, preferably in Teradata.
• Tableau experience is also preferred.