Senior Business Analyst with SAS 9.2 Enterprise Guide 4.3

KMM TECHNOLOGIES INC IS LOOKING FOR SENIOR BA WITH SAS 9.2 EG IN HOUSTON, TX FOR ONE OF OUR CLIENT. PLEASE SEND RESUMES.

Applications Systems Analyst/Programmer (Senior),
Houston, TX
3months + with Possible Extension Upto April-2013,

Skill Sets, Duties and Responsibilities
This position requires a minimum of five years of increasingly complex and progressive experience in performing statistical analysis, mathematical, engineering or scientific settings using a variety of information technology resources. Requires experience in SAS and familiarity with other technical platforms.

Serve as a senior level statistical analyst that is skilled with SAS base and statistical products as used in Mainframe, server and personal computer environments. Apply working knowledge of electric industry processes related to transactional data, statistical analysis and advance statistical reporting. Provide support in applying existing SAS programs used for data extraction and reporting. Prepare ad-hoc reporting request, documentation, and diagrams as requested.

Consultant musthave project experience with implementing advanced SAS coding techniques to optimize performance and have developed best practices for efficient coding due to constraints of hardware storage and memory. Additional coding responsibilities would be to take ownership of Legacy code written by ex-employees and understand what the code does, how to modify and enhance it, and how to make the code more efficient if necessary.

A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study which provides substantial knowledge useful in managing large, information system, a physical science, engineering or a mathematics - intensive discipline, or an applicable training certificate from an accredited training institution.

Proficiency Requirements:
(1) Contractor must have proficiency in the application functionality and connectivity of SAS Enterprise Guide to data sources on UNIX Servers, Windows Servers, Microsoft Office,and IBM Mainframe datasets (disk and cartridge)
(2) Contractor must have proficiency using SAS Access to Oracle, PC file formats, DB2, and other ODBC compliant databases and data formats.
(3) Contractor must have proficiency in interpersonal, oral, and written communications
(4) Contractor must have proficiency in data analysis with proven expertise in data management, data quality, and data mining using Base SAS products and advance SAS programming tools and techniques for code optimization.
(5) Contractor must have proficiency, recent (1 year or less) experience, and foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and its practice related to an energy or other scientific/technology industry.
(6) Contractor must have project experience with implementing advanced SAS coding techniques to optimize performance and have developed best practices for efficient coding.

Job Responsibilities:
a. Serve as a Business Analyst with a solid experience in:
data quality analysis,
statistical analysis
performing complex analytics and reporting
development and interpretation of business requirements documentation, use cases,
process specifications and functionality documentation
b. Perform as a statistical programmer and business analyst skilled in applying:
(1) SAS base and statistical products on multiple platforms
(2) Enterprise Guide accessing data from varied data sources and platforms
(3) statistics and sound data quality processing standards and practices
c. Run and monitor existing SAS programs and develop Enterprise Guide interfaces for existing SAS routines