Senior Staff Engineer - SAS Programmer

  • Full-time
  • Service Region: UCC

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 36 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Job Description : SAS Programmer/Analyst (Marketing Research) we need a skilled SAS programmer to own and enhance data pipelines and deliverables for a large, ongoing, table-driven marketing research study. The person will be the primary point of contact for extracting data from SQL databases, transforming and validating it in SAS, and producing standardized SAS/SPSS/CSV datasets and documentation for internal stakeholders and clients.

Key responsibilities

  • Data engineering and pipelines
  • Extract, transform, and load (ETL) study data from SQL databases into SAS using DATA step, PROC SQL, and parameterized, table-driven control logic.
  • Maintain and optimize reusable SAS macros/code libraries; ensure jobs are modular, performant, and well documented.
  • Build and maintain SPSS and CSV flat-file exports from SAS with consistent schemas, encodings, and delivery packaging.
  • Manage SAS ATTRIBs, informats, labels, and user-defined formats via controlled format catalogs to preserve metadata consistency across waves and clients.
  • Standardized datasets and deliverables
    • Maintain a portfolio of standardized datasets (SAS, SPSS, CSV) for internal analysis and external client distribution.
    • Produce proprietary client-specific SAS datasets per specification, including variable derivations, naming conventions, labels, formats, and delivery schedules.
    • Generate data dictionaries, layout specs, and change logs for every release; ensure version control and reproducibility. Variable creation and logic implementation
    • Develop, maintain, and run SAS programs to construct complex proprietary variables based on written specifications and table-driven rules.
    • Implement table-driven business logic and parameter files to support multi-client, multi-wave production at scale.
  • Quality assurance and validation
    • Design and maintain SAS-based validation checks (unit tests, reconciliations, row/column balances, referential integrity) with automated exception logs.
    • Verify calculations and transformations against specifications, prior waves, and independent SPSS outputs.
  • Collaboration and support
    • Support ad hoc data pulls and one-off deliverables with clear scoping and reproducibility.
    • Contribute to standards, SOPs, code reviews, and continuous improvement of the data production process.

Minimum qualifications 

  • 3+ years of hands-on SAS programming in a production environment (Base SAS, PROC SQL, Macro facility, DATA step).
  • Proven experience extracting from SQL databases and transforming data into SAS and SPSS deliverables.
  • Strong Excel skills and comfort documenting processes and data dictionaries.
  • Demonstrated experience building automated QC/validation checks and reconciling results across sources/tools.
  • Ability to interpret technical specifications and convert them into robust, reusable SAS code.
  • Clear written and verbal communication; comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders in a deadline-driven setting.
  • Meticulous attention to detail, versioning discipline, and a strong sense of data stewardship. 

Qualifications

Must have Skills: SAS, SQL (Strong)

Good To Have Skills: Microsoft Excel

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