PBT Group requires Mid - Senior SAS Developers with at least 3 years relevant experience to join an existing project at a Short-term Insurance company.
With over two decades of expert knowledge and experience as information management specialists, PBT is a recognised leader in Business Intelligence and data warehousing and has extended its competency base to cover data quality and advanced analytics.
We pride ourselves to be a company who attracts, recruits and retains consultants of an exceptional calibre, not only within BI, but also within focused areas of Application Development.
We have worked in more than 25 countries around the world and are currently implementing large-scale projects throughout Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:

• Intimate knowledge of source systems as well as a basic understanding of dimensional models.
• Conventional database- and data warehouse modelling skills, in order to understand the data warehouse data models.
• A sound knowledge of the programming language used to write the data staging programs or ETL tool.
• A sound knowledge of SQL, or the language used to access the source databases and the data warehouse from the data staging programs or ETL tool.
• A sound knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the data staging programs.
• Pride of work, thoroughness and attention to detail.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• SAS DI Studio (in-depth knowledge)
• SAS Base, Macros (in-depth knowledge)
• 3+ years ETL development experience
• 2 to 3 years Business intelligence/warehouse design experience
• SAS experience essential
• ETL SAS DI
• SAS tool knowledge/architecture
• Cubes
• Database build
• Dashboards
• Predictive modelling
• Enterprise search
• Interactive visualisation techniques
• In memory analytics
• Understanding of the integration challenges within BI
• Performance management
• Multi dimensional data analysis

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING:

• Course on the ETL / related toolset.
• Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential.
• B.Sc. or related degree is advantageous. 
• 2+ years programming experience.

PERSONAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Acting with Integrity.
• Able to Build Relationships.
• Communicating with Impact.
• SDLC Knowledge.
• Working in Teams.
• Service oriented.

 
DUTIES:

• Plan and analyse complex business requirements and implement technology enabled solutions to address multi-discipline business opportunities/problems.
• Conduct planning, analysis and design activities in conjunction with other development specialists.
• Participate in analysis of complex business opportunities/problems to deliver designs meeting requirements.
• Participate in estimation of tasks and assist in the development of project plans.
• Code or makes modifications to programs of high complexity, according to specifications.
• Conduct medium to high complexity evaluations for product releases, stand-alone products, etc.
• Conduct walkthroughs and quality review of deliverables.
• Knowledge of design and developing end-to-end data acquisition processes to be used in population of data warehouse/data marts and/or in the creation of interfaces.
• Provide guidance and mentoring on business intelligence technology and systems in general, especially in the area of ETL processes.
• Participate in the formulation of standards to support the data acquisition development process.
• Design, develop and execute complex data acquisition or interface routines using ETL tool, ensuring that business and technical requirements are met.
• Ensure compliance with established policies, standards and methodologies