SAS Developer/Analyst

Must be currently located in or willing to relocate to the Washington DC area.

Must be willing to work from client site up to 5 days per week

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics or related field.

2 years' of professional consulting experience involving implementations of analytical applications or data manipulation

2 years of analytics, business intelligence and/or data management experience.

Prepare and manipulate structured and unstructured data for data discovery and mining from multiple disparate data sources

Create new variables and perform ETL on structured data 2

Translate data analysis into coherent reports and presentations for internal and external customers with varying degrees of technical knowledge

Create high-end analytic visualizations, utilizing supervised and unsupervised learning using SAS software to support decision-makers

Prototype solutions using varied SAS software tools

Assist with communicating key analytic findings to stakeholders

Support and maintain production code and data as needed

Ability to communicate with people of various technical and business backgrounds, including the ability to explain difficult technical concepts in simple terms to business users.

Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Ability to conceptualize clients’ needs and translate into specific implementation strategies.

Will be required to use SAS Tools to produce work and deliverables across the entire data analytics lifecycle from data management and prep to modeling and data visualization.

Will attend in person meetings and establish relationships with client resources and seek to become a trusted advisor regarding end-user needs and SAS software use and products

Develop an understanding of the client’s data environment and how that applies to developing predictive models; that is, analyze and determine what data is available and necessary to create desired data mining model(s), to include reviewing available data sources and identifying appropriate variables (existing, or to be created) for the models.

Develop SAS programs to access data from various sources (e.g., reading in data sources and producing datasets suitable for SAS analytics); this will most often include data preparation, analysis and predictive model development.

Interpret statistical model results into business insights and presents findings to management.

Ability to write SAS/SQL statements to store, retrieve, manipulate, integrate, validate, and summarize data.

Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of SQL pass-through or PROC SQL), as well as the SAS Macro language for use in making code more efficient.

Good written and spoken communication skills in English and thought-leadership skills. MAJOR

RESPONSIBILITIES/ACTIVITIES:

Build a trusted relationship with the customer to provide practical and theoretical guidance in the business value of proposed solutions and set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction

Strategize with sales team on objectives for customer meetings, understand how this activity relates to overall sales plan and provide functional solution leadership for sales opportunities

Conduct discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and document business requirements during the sales cycle to support the implementation team and to produce a detailed solution proposal

Provide reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects and technologies.

Provide data and analytical expertise to projects.

About Fortis Grex:

Fortis Grex LLC. is a Global Workforce Solutions and Software Consulting Company, headquartered in Sheridan, WY. We offer a wide range of consulting solutions customized to specific client needs including Workforce Management and Project Consulting. If you are looking to augment staff for your Temporary/Permanent existing IT projects, we can help you get through the finish line. With experiences in industries like banking, insurance, financial services, pharmaceuticals and many more; we hit the ground running. We are proficient in ASP.NET, PHP Development, E-commerce solution, web designing, Android/iPhone Apps and online marketing services. We deploy world class .NET based web solutions which are created using advanced technologies such as Singleton Pattern, JQUERY/AJAX, Angular4, React, WCF/LINQ, .net Core, .Net/MVC (Razor & Entity) and Kendo Controls. We utilize platforms like cakePHP, Magento, Zend, Joomla, Opencart, Laravel and WordPress in PHP/Mysql while developing PHP based solutions. We also use Basecamp and OntimeNow Project Management Tools when asked by the clients.

Full-Time