Data Architect – SAS (Legacy & Viya)
Duration: 6 Months
Pay Rate: £671 per day all inc. (PAYE through FCSA Umbrella)
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
- 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
- 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
Data Architect – SAS (Legacy & Viya)
Duration: 6 Months
Pay Rate: £671 per day all inc. (PAYE through FCSA Umbrella)
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
- 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
- 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
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