SAS Consultant with German

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Your Role and Responsibilities

• Lead the team in addressing and resolving SAS-related tickets promptly and effectively.

• Collaborate with team members to troubleshoot technical issues, ensuring timely resolution.

• Oversee the incident management process, ensuring that incidents are properly documented, analyzed, and resolved.

• Provide guidance to the team in implementing preventive measures to reduce the recurrence of incidents.

• Communicate with German-speaking clients regarding ticket status, resolutions, and preventive measures.

• Ensure clear and effective communication in German, addressing client concerns and inquiries.

• Proactively identify areas for service improvement and efficiency gains.

• Implement and oversee initiatives for continuous service improvement, collaborating with team members and stakeholders.

• Collaborate with German-speaking clients to understand their business requirements and objectives.

• Present findings and recommendations in German in a clear and understandable manner, fostering effective communication.

• Oversee and conduct quality checks on analytical models and reports to ensure accuracy and reliability.

• Monitor the performance of SAS solutions to identify potential issues before they impact clients.

• Implement measures to optimize system performance and enhance user experience.

• Responsible for the overall availability of the SAS tools and software environments.

• Provides support for multiple SAS clusters for production, and consolidation.

• Performs SAS software administration; including software configuration, updates, patches, and hotfixes and license renewals as needed on Linux / Redhat (RHEL) platforms.

• Executes actions necessary to achieve and maintain optimum SAS platform performance, reliability and availability.

• Identifies bottlenecks in production systems and provide solutions.

• Manage metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.

• Uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, and create metadata objects and folder structures

• Manages permissions to metadata objects.

• Serves as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues and acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS environments.

• Provides on call production support through a rotation schedule.

• Lead and inspire a team of analysts, providing mentorship and support in ticket resolution and service improvement initiatives.

• Coordinate and allocate tasks among team members to optimize productivity.

• Foster a collaborative and proactive team culture.

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of ticket resolutions, processes, and improvements.

• Maintain an organized knowledge base for future reference and training purposes.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate SAS solutions into broader business strategies.

• Facilitate communication between teams to address interconnected issues and optimize overall system performance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, etc.).

• Proven experience as a SAS Consultant with a focus on ticket resolution and service improvement.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and guide a team.

• Fluent in German (spoken and written), Romanian and English mandatory

• In-depth knowledge of SAS tools and programming languages.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.

• Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise