SAS Data Engineers
📍 2 days per week onsite in Worthing
💰 £50,000 – £70,000 base salary
🔐 SC Clearance eligibility required
We’re looking for experienced SAS Consultants / Data Engineers to join a well-established, long-term public sector programme delivering high-impact data solutions at scale.
This is a key role within a mature Data Portfolio, helping our client maximise revenue, reduce avoidance and evasion, and modernise critical systems through advanced analytics and data engineering.
You’ll work in a collaborative Agile environment alongside Product Owners, Architects, Scrum Masters and fellow Engineers, with regular exposure to senior stakeholders and clients.
What you’ll be doing:
- Designing and delivering secure, performant SAS-based data and analytics solutions
- Building and enhancing data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, reporting, fraud detection and analytics) with monitoring, alerting and SLAs
- Working closely with product teams and client stakeholders to refine requirements and align solutions with non-functional requirements (performance, security, cost)
- Supporting incident resolution and ensuring service continuity
- Contributing to engineering communities of practice, mentoring colleagues and sharing knowledge
- Actively participating in Agile ceremonies and cross-functional delivery teams
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer delivering large-scale, complex data solutions
- Strong expertise in SAS 9.x and SAS Viya 3.x / 4, ideally including tools such as:
- SAS Studio, Visual Analytics, Visual Investigator, VDMML, Intelligent Decisioning, Environment Manager
- Solid understanding of data modelling and ETL
- Experience with batch scheduling and job orchestration (Airflow and/or native SAS schedulers)
- Knowledge of SAS performance optimisation, including database connectivity
- Experience collaborating with Architects to design robust, scalable solutions
- Ability to embed CI/CD best practices into development workflows
- Excellent client-facing and consultancy skills
Why join?
Work on mission-critical public sector systems with real national impact
Long-term, stable programme with modern data and analytics tooling
Hybrid working with flexibility
Competitive salary aligned to senior capability (£60–70k)
Opportunity to influence solution design, mentor others, and grow within a recognised engineering community
