SAS Architect/SAS Technical Lead – MUST HAVE SC CLEARANCE – Telford And Remote – 6 Months+

SAS Architect/SAS Technical Lead – MUST HAVE SC CLEARANCE – Telford and remote – 6 months+/RATE: £656 per day inside IR35

One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for a SAS Architect/SAS Technical Lead

For this role you will need to be onsite in Telford 2 days per week.

Please find some details below:

Job Description

• Own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments
• Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards
• Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS
• Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms
• Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya
• Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs
• Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues
• Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead
• Hands‑on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x)
• Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses
• Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting or designing modernisation journeys from Legacy SAS to Viya
• SAS Viya (cloud or containerised environments)
• Exposure to cloud platforms
• Familiarity with data lake/lakehouse patterns alongside traditional warehouses
• Experience working in multi-supplier or federated delivery models

Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.

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