JOB DETAILS

SAS | SAS VA consultants

  • 18 Jul 2019
  • ACT
  • Contract
  • Initial contract till June - 2 x 12 month Extensions
  • Federal Role - Australian Citizenship Mandatory
Overview

This Smaller Federal department  is focussed on food safety and  biosecurity and are undertaking a number of analytic initiatives they seek a SAS Contractor to work within its Information Services Division.

Whats in it for you ?

36 month Project 

Smaller Agency 

Work across SAS VA 


Whats the Gig ?

• Development and delivery of complex reporting and analytics applications, preferably using SAS EG, Base SAS, Macro and SAS VA;

• Liaison closely with the other project members to ensure business requirements and system design issues are fully understood and reflected in the system artefacts;

• Provision of support for BAU activities including execution of ad hoc analysis and reporting requests;

• Performing SAS environment monitoring and configuration, or have the desire to learn this skill;

• Preparation and maintenance of procedural documentations; and

• Production of high-quality documentation to support release and change management processes.

Our Ideal Candidate ?

An Australian Citizen with 

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in/with:

o SAS Distributed Visual Analytics v9.4 – mandatory

o SAS Enterprise Guide – mandatory

o SAS Office Analytics – highly regarded

o SAS Enterprise Miner – highly regarded o SAS Viya - highly regarded;


• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in business requirements gathering and experience in business information report solutions;

• Proven ability to work in a team environment with strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively liaise with business users and development teams together with an ability to mentor other members of the development team;

• Experience in delivering projects in a Federal Government environment with proven ability in current best practice techniques;

• Ability to work in a demanding and high pace environment, managing priorities and dependencies, and delivering to mandated deadlines.
 
Logistics 

Estimated start date
1-08-2019
Location of work
Australian Capital Territory
Length of contract
To 30 June 2020
Contract extensions
2 x up to 12 months each
Security clearance
Ability to obtain baseline clearance

If this sounds like you please apply now !!