SAS Viya Architect & Technical Lead (SC Cleared) – Remote

Octopus Computer Associates; Dawley; Hybrid; GBP 109,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Computer Associates is seeking a SAS Architect/Technical Lead (Viya) to own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments, with SC clearance. The role is based in Telford with remote options and a 6 months+ contract at £656 per day inside IR35.

You will provide design assurance, governance, and guide teams on data warehouse integrations, migration strategies, and ensure security and performance of SAS platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a SAS Architect or Senior SAS Technical Lead.
• Hands-on architectural experience with Legacy SAS (Base SAS, SAS Grid, SAS 9.x).
• Proven experience integrating SAS with enterprise data warehouses.
• Experience working in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting modernisation journeys from Legacy SAS to Viya.
• SAS Viya (cloud or containerised environments).
• Exposure to cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with data lake/lakehouse patterns alongside traditional warehouses.
• Experience working in multi-supplier or federated delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Provide design assurance and governance for SAS services, ensuring alignment with data platform and enterprise architecture standards.
• Support and guide teams consuming data warehouse sources (on prem and/or cloud) from SAS.
• Define and document integration patterns between data warehouses and SAS platforms.
• Advise on migration, coexistence and modernisation strategies between Legacy SAS and Viya.
• Act as the technical authority for SAS-related decisions, risks and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and vendors to resolve complex issues.
• Ensure solutions consider security, performance, scalability and data quality.

Skills

SAS Architecture

Technical Leadership

Regulated environments

Tools

SAS Viya

Base SAS

SAS Grid

Job description

Octopus Computer Associates is seeking a SAS Architect/Technical Lead (Viya) to own the architecture and technical design of SAS-based solutions across Legacy SAS and SAS Viya environments, with SC clearance. The role is based in Telford with remote options and a 6 months+ contract at £656 per day inside IR35.

You will provide design assurance, governance, and guide teams on data warehouse integrations, migration strategies, and ensure security and performance of SAS platforms.