Cloud Industry Lead – Life Sciences

SAS Institute; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

SAS Institute, a leader in data and AI, seeks a seasoned cloud analytics professional in the UK. You will deliver industry and solution expertise to deploy cloud solutions across the customer lifecycle, from contract signing to ongoing operations.

You will gather requirements, run workshops, and present data-driven demonstrations to expand cloud adoption while ensuring regulatory compliance and strong customer experience. Hybrid work options available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry and/or technical experience.
• 2 years in clinical trial analysis, consulting, systems support, customer support, or training for enterprise-class software.
• 2 years of SAS, Java, and/or Python programming for enterprise-class applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, MIS, or related discipline.
• Experience in Life Sciences and clinical trial analysis for cloud customers.
• Right to work in country where role is posted.
• Ability to understand and translate complex technical and business information.

Responsibilities

• Provide industry and solution expertise to support cloud implementations across the customer lifecycle.
• Conduct requirements gathering, workshops, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and customer demos to drive platform adoption.
• Ensure customer environments comply with regulations, standards and best practices.
• Implement business requirements to improve stability, monitoring, and customer experience.
• Collaborate with internal/external teams to address risks and enforce security policies in software development.

Skills

Industry experience

SAS/Java/Python

Business acumen

Customer focus

Communication skills

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Technical translation to business

Software validation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAS

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of industry and/or technical experience, including:
• 2 years of experience in clinical trial analysis, consulting, systems support, customer support, or training for enterprise-class software.
• 2 years of experience with SAS, Java, and/or Python programming to support enterprise-class applications.
• Bachelors degree, preferably in Business, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience in the Life Sciences industry and clinical trial analysis to support cloud customers.
• Proof of the right to work in the country where the role is posted.
• An equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Business savvy, including understanding business operations and organizational drivers of profitable growth, and evaluating plans and processes.
• Customer focus, including prioritizing customer perspectives and delivering service practices that meet customer and organizational needs.
• Strong communication skills, including conveying information clearly, engaging audiences, and listening actively.
• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Ability to understand and translate complex technical and business information for internal and external audiences.
• Knowledge of software validation, qualification, and acceptance testing practices in regulated environments.

Responsibilities:

• We provide industry and solution expertise to support implementation of our cloud solutions throughout the customer lifecycle, from contract signature through ongoing operations.
• We conduct requirements gathering, workshops, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and customer presentations or demonstrations to drive platform adoption and expand our cloud footprint.
• We ensure customer environments comply with industry regulations, our standards, and best practices.
• We implement business and industry requirements to improve system stability and monitoring awareness, reduce operational burden, and support a positive customer experience.
• We work across internal and external teams to resolve risks, address obstacles, and ensure applicable security policies and processes are followed in support of secure software development.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• Java
• Python
• SAS
• Security
• DevOps

More:

We are SAS, a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we help customers around the world transform data into intelligence and questions into answers. We offer a dynamic career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, and we are recognized for our inclusive culture and innovative technologies. Our Managed Cloud Services Life Sciences Offering team is rapidly expanding, with opportunities to collaborate with customers and colleagues across SAS to deliver outstanding service and support regulatory compliance in our life sciences cloud environments. We value curiosity, passion, authenticity, and accountability, and believe our people make the difference. This hybrid role is based in Warsaw, Poland, or Marlow, London, or Glasgow, UK. Travel requirements: none.

last updated 40 week of 2026