Data Platform Engineer - SAS
Job ID: 010218
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: from £45,000 Per Annum Depending On Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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As our next Data Platform Engineer for SAS you’ll manage, secure, and maintain enterprise SAS environments to meet the wide-ranging needs of data-users across the business, from analysing data and user requirements, to design, build, and implement the running of a reliable and resilient data platform. You’ll join a team of engineers team in our Leeds based Technology Services function.
You’ll need an inquisitive mind and be able to deliver data integrations between systems and think about how that data may be used downstream in analytical teams, or how it may impact our regulatory reporting team. Working with our data products team, you will deliver a platform that can support their data reporting requirements.
What You’ll Do
- User & Access Control: Register and manage users, groups and roles. Carry out annual audit of user access.
- Security & Metadata: Secure server configurations, set up metadata folder structures and assign permissions.
- Data Access & Connectivity: Register and maintain data libraries, configure database connections (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.), and troubleshoot data access issues
- Logging & Troubleshooting: Monitor server health, review log files, and resolve runtime or availability issue
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, developers, architects, and technical support teams to resolve platform and application issues.
- Contribute to good housekeeping practices for the maintenance of data.
Skills Required
We are recruiting for multiple roles and would be interested in hearing from you if you have hands-on technical experience in the following:
- Administration, deployment and support of SAS Platform (currently v9.4)
- Strong knowledge of SAS architecture, components, services, configuration, and operational management.
- Strong SAS platform administration and troubleshooting experience.
- SAS programming experience.
- Experience working with Linux, including administration, troubleshooting.
- Experience with platform monitoring, logging, performance tuning, resilience, backup/recovery, and production operations.
- Strong troubleshooting skills covering SAS applications, operating systems, connectivity, authentication, and platform configuration.
- Ability to work effectively with platform teams, database administrators and analytical/data science users.
- Excellent time management and work prioritization skills
- Awareness of Data Cleansing, Data Quality and Data Governance tools and methods.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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