SAS Engineer - Banking

Company Description

Job Description

VAM Systems is currently looking for a SAS Engineer for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets and terms & conditions:

Qualification

• BE Computer Science and Engineering

Professional Training

• SQL Development, SAS EG, SAS DI, Object-oriented Programming (e.g. C#, Java)

Experience Required:
Experience in the following tools (3+ years)

• SAS Management Console
• SAS DI, SAS Enterprise Guide
• Base SAS
• SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Delivery Portal, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Maps, SAS BI
• SAS Stored Process, SAS Datasets & Library
• Experience to configure/install applications in the servers (Windows/Linux/Unix) and basic knowledge of DNS, Ports, and Firewalls (3+ years)
• Experience managing and further developing distributed systems and clusters for both batch as well as streaming data (Hadoop/Spark and/or Kafka/Flink)
• Experience in handling semi-structured data sets (e.g. JSON, XML) (3+ years)
• Experience in C# or Java (3+ years)
• Banking and Finance, Financial accounting and Reporting Environment
• Expertise in writing advanced SQL Query, Stored Procedures and functions
• ETL Tools SAS platform Tools like SAS DI / SAS Enterprise Guide and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Sound understanding of Financial Reporting (Balance Sheet/Profit and Loss) and Risk Reporting.
• Developing within database and specifically Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle (minimum of 3+ years required).

Responsibility

• Consolidate and analyze financial data (budgets, income statement forecasts, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss) taking into account company’s goals and financial standing
• Build Stored procedure and ETL Jobs to Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data
• Contribute to data warehouse design and components, relational database management systems, and database design solutions
• Develop SQL Server T-SQL procedures/functions for batch processing as well as reports, in line with user requirements
• Build SAS EG, SAS DI jobs
• Research and resolve discrepancies in financial data, Manage the month-end close process.

Skills

• Solving Complex Problems
• Testing and Troubleshooting
• Regulatory Compliance
• Financial Reporting
• ETL/ETT/ETM Tools and Process
• Risk Management
• Data Warehouses
• Data Marts
• Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Market Risk
• Data Modeling
• SAS, SAS BI, MS SQL Server, T-SQL in data warehousing/batch

Domain: Bank
Years of Experience: 5 + years
The selected candidates shall join VAM Systems - Bahrain and shall be deputed to one of the leading Banks in Bahrain.
Additional Information
Terms and conditions:
Joining time frame: maximum 4 weeks