Sr. SAS Developer with Python and SQL to migrate existing code and workflows for our large financial client - 6060

Sr. SAS Developer with Python and SQL to migrate existing code and workflows for our large financial client - 6060

Contract duration: to December 24, 2024 (with renewal into 2025 once budgets are approved)

What you'll do

• Working independently and as part of a small team, migrate existing code and workflows from Statistical Analysis System (SAS) to Python & SQL.
• Individual will be required to analyze existing logic and code, and subsequently come up with a suitable, efficient, and well tested design in Python
• With supervision and code/design reviews by senior staff, responsible for the timely completion of high quality, well designed and well architected and tested systems.
• Responsible for completion of an acceptable volume of work and for the communication of status of personal work plans and tasks required to design, develop, and test assigned portion of projects.

What you'll need

• Computer Science or Engineering degree with equivalent working experience
• Minimum 5 years software design/development experience
• Sound knowledge of current information systems theories, concepts, and techniques
• Good organizational, analytical, debugging, resourcefulness and problem-solving skills.
• Strong design, testing, and documentation skills
• Strong hands-on Python development skills using Data science libraries such as Pandas, etc.
• Strong SQL skills using relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2
• Working experience with GIT, JIRA, Confluence
• Testing best practices
• Experience in the following technologies will be considered as a strong asset:
• SAS - www.sas.com
• Containerization, cloud-native development (i.e. Azure, AKS, etc.)
• CI/CD tools (CloudBees, Jenkins, UrbanCode, etc)
• UC4 Automic (job scheduler)