IT SAS Application Senior Specialist

Home Credit Philippines; Taguig; Híbrido; PHP 900.000 - 1.100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work setup

Bonus up to 20%

HMO on Day 1

Wellness Leaves

Career mobility

Learning opportunities

Mental health support

Descripción de la vacante

Home Credit Philippines is seeking an IT SAS Application Senior Specialist to operate, administer, and support SAS environments ensuring stability and performance for business users.

You will collaborate with development, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to resolve incidents, upgrade systems, and drive modernization initiatives while providing SME guidance to analysts and data scientists.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience supporting SAS applications in an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience with SAS platforms (SAS 9.x and/or SAS Viya).
• Working knowledge of SAS programming and job execution.
• Experience with SAS RTDM and ESP.
• Understanding logs and logging setups.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.

Responsabilidades

• Provide day-to-day operational support for SAS applications (SAS 9.x, SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide).
• Monitor application health, performance, and availability; ensure SLAs are met.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents and performance issues.
• Collaborate with analytics, data engineering, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Handle installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of SAS software.
• Ensure smooth integration with databases and data sources.
• Coordinate with infra and DB teams to maintain stable environments.
• Support changes, enhancements, and new feature deployments.
• Participate in upgrades and migrations (e.g., SAS 9 to Viya).
• Act as SME for SAS applications; guide analysts and business users.
• Assist users with scheduling, data processing, reporting, and tuning.
• Create/update runbooks and user guides.
• Ensure security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Conocimientos

SAS Administration

Linux/Unix

SQL/Relational DBs

DevOps basics

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Cloud platforms

Educación

Bachelor's in IT/CS

CBAP/IIBA Certification

Herramientas

SAS 9.x

SAS Viya

Java/Python basics

Git/Confluence basics

JIRA

Descripción del empleo

About The Job

As a member of the scrum and support teams, the IT SAS Application Senior Specialist is responsible for the operation, administration, maintenance, and support of SAS applications and platforms. The role ensures stable, secure, and performant SAS environments, supports business users, and works closely with development, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure end to end service reliability of SAS solutions.

What You Will Do

• Provide day-to-day operational support for SAS applications (e.g., SAS 9.x, SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS DI, SAS BI).
• Monitor application health, performance, and availability, ensuring SLAs are met.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application incidents, defects, and performance issues.
• Collaborate with business analysts, data engineers, QA/application specialists and DevOps and other IT functions
• Support installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of SAS software.
• Ensure smooth integration of SAS applications with databases, data sources, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Coordinate with infrastructure and database teams to maintain stable environments
• Support application changes, enhancements, and new feature deployments in line with change management processes.
• Participate in system upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives (e.g., SAS 9 to SAS Viya).
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for SAS applications, providing guidance to analysts, data scientists, and business users.
• Assist users with job scheduling, data processing, reporting, and performance optimization.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and user guides
• Ensure applications comply with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Implement best practices for system stability, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Support audits and risk assessments as required.

What You Need To Have

• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting SAS application in an enterprise environment
• Strong experience with SAS platforms (SAS 9.x and/or SAS Viya preferred).
• Working knowledge of SAS programming and job execution.
• Experience with supporting SAS RTDM and ESP
• Understanding of various logs and setting up logging
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Experience with application monitoring, scheduling, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of data sources platforms (relational databases, kafka, rabbitMQ, hadoop, files)
• Understanding devops process
• Basic knowledge of GIT, Ansible, Kubernetes - using, managing, installing, configuring
• Basic knowledge of programming languages and file formats (java, python, xml, json, wsdl
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working as a business analyst in an agile environment
• Familiarity in analysis and modeling tools
• Post graduate diploma in courses related to IT/ Business Analysis / Process Engineering
• CBAP/IIBA Certification
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence

What Can Set You Apart

• SAS certifications (e.g., SAS Certified Platform Administrator, SAS Viya certifications).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) hosting SAS environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Understanding of DNS protocols, SSL certificates, IP networking
• Knowledge of basics of virtualization
• Understanding of HW configuration

Job Perks You’ll Enjoy

• Hybrid work setup
• Permanent dayshift schedule
• Up to 20% variable performance-based bonus
• HMO on Day 1 and HMO dependents coverage including same-sex partners
• Access to mental health and wellness partners
• Wellness Leaves and Birthday Leave
• Internal career mobility options
• Local and international learning opportunities

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