Senior SAS Analytical Consultant
Company: GTT, LLC
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Senior SAS Analytical Consultant
- Contract Duration 24+ months
Job -Description and Responsibilities:
- Seeking a full-time Senior SAS Analytical consultant to work
with our client, a Federal Government client in Chantilly,
VA.
- Our client is -seeking an experienced statistician, modeler, or
data scientist to support a variety of cleared work.
- The SAS Analytical Consultant will -need to be proficient in
SAS and possess a current Top-Secret clearance.
- The SAS Analytical Consultant must -have excellent
communication skills and must be able to communicate about the
techniques developed and results of analysis both to executives and
other analysts in the organization.
Qualifications -Essential:
- Must be currently located in or willing to relocate to the
Washington DC area.
- Must be willing to work from the client site up to 5 days per
week.
- Current CI or full-scope polygraph is preferred. Current
Top-Secret Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Economics,
Mathematics, or a related field.
- 4 years of professional consulting experience involving
implementations of analytical applications or data
manipulation
- 4 additional years of analytics, business intelligence, and/or
data management experience. 2
- Prepare and manipulate structured and unstructured data for
data discovery and mining from multiple disparate data
sources.
- Create new variables and perform ETL on structured
data.
- Translate data analysis into coherent reports and presentations
for internal and external customers with varying degrees of
technical knowledge.
- Create high-end analytic visualizations, utilizing supervised
and unsupervised learning using SAS software to support
decision-makers.
- Prototype solutions using varied SAS software tools.
- Assist with communicating key analytic findings to
stakeholders.
- Support and maintain production code and data as
needed.
- Ability to communicate with people of various technical and
business backgrounds, including the ability to explain difficult
technical concepts in simple terms to business users.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication
skills.
- Ability to conceptualize clients' needs and translate them into
specific implementation strategies. --- Previous Federal government
experience.
- Understanding of open-source programming languages.
- Will be required to use SAS Tools to produce work and
deliverables across the entire data analytics lifecycle from data
management and prep to modeling and data visualization.
- Will attend in-person meetings and establish relationships with
client resources and seek to become a trusted advisor regarding
end-user needs and SAS software use and products.
- Develop an understanding of the client's data environment and
how that applies to developing predictive models; that is, analyze
and determine what data is available and necessary to create
desired data mining model(s), including reviewing available data
sources and identifying appropriate variables (existing, or to be
created) for the models.
- Develop SAS programs to access data from various sources (e.g.,
reading data sources and producing datasets suitable for SAS
analytics); this will most often include data preparation,
analysis, and predictive model development.
- Interpret statistical model results into business insights and
present findings to management.
- Provide ongoing tracking and monitoring of the performance of
decision systems and statistical models.
- Ability to write SAS/SQL statements to store, retrieve,
manipulate, integrate, validate, and summarize data.
- Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL
programming (i.e., use of SQL pass-through or PROC SQL), as well as
the SAS Macro language for use in making code more
efficient.
- Good written and spoken communication skills in English and
thought-leadership skills. 3 MAJOR
Responsibilities/Activities:
- Build a trusted relationship with the customer to provide
practical and theoretical guidance on the business value of
proposed solutions and set proper expectations to ensure customer
satisfaction.
- Strategize with the sales team on objectives for customer
meetings, understand how this activity relates to the overall sales
plan, and provide functional solution leadership for sales
opportunities.
- Conduct discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and
document business requirements during the sales cycle to support
the implementation team and to produce a detailed solution
proposal.
- Provide reliable delivery of targeted project results through
my role as an expert in the application of specific SAS
methodologies, projects, and technologies.
- Provide data and analytical expertise to projects.
- Understand client business pains and translate them into
solutions.
- Collaborate with other professional services colleagues,
project managers, and sales teams on customer
implementations.
- Understand, utilize, and communicate best practice
methodologies and industry standards internally and
externally.
- Participate in product and solution training to acquire and
maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components
of SAS offerings.
- Lead or assist with activities related to SAS analytics project
discovery, definition, design, development, implementation, and
follow-on maintenance analytical environment.
- Prepare data mining data sets for modeling.
- Develop an understanding of the client's data environment and
how that applies to developing predictive models; that is, analyze
and determine what data is available and necessary to create
desired data mining model(s), including reviewing available data
sources and identifying appropriate variables (existing, or to be
created) for the models.
- Use SAS for data exploration, including developing intuition
about the data, the data structures, data types, data values,
exploration of distributions, summary statistics, and/or
histograms.
- Develop SAS programs to access data from various sources (e.g.,
reading data sources and producing datasets suitable for SAS
analytics); this will most often include data preparation,
analysis, and predictive model development.
- Perform data and statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and
data mining using a mix of third-party and internal customer data
to identify customer insights and behavioral
characteristics.
- Interpret statistical model results into business insights and
present findings to management.
- Provide ongoing tracking and monitoring of the performance of
decision systems and statistical models.
About The Company:
- Our client is the Largest autonomous vendor in the business
intelligence market and is a la leader in business analytics
services and software. They help customers to improve performance
and deliver value by making better decisions faster through
innovative solutions. With the vision and mission to empower,
transform, and inspire the world of data into intelligence with
analytics.
- The client is strongly committed to providing employee
-empowerment to make a difference, significant work, and a
world-class environment that inspires innovation.
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