- MAJOR RESPONSIBILTIES/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.
- Understand client business pains and translate them into solutions.
- Collaborate with other professional services colleagues, project managers, and sales teams on customer implementations.
- Understand, utilize, and communicate best practice methodologies and industry standards internally and externally.
- Participate in product and solution training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings.
- Lead or assist with activities related to SAS analytics project discovery, definition, design, development, implementation, and follow-on maintenance analytical environment.
- Prepare data mining data sets for modeling.
- 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.
- Use SAS for data exploration, to include developing intuition about the data, the data structures, data types, data values, exploration of distributions, summary statistics and/or histograms.
- 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.
- Perform data and statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data mining using a mix of third-party and internal customer data to identify customer insights and behavioral characteristics.
- Interpreting statistical model results into business insights and presents findings to management.
- Provide on-going tracking and monitoring of performance of decision systems and statistical models.
Onsite SAS Developer - Chantilly, United States - Vector Consulting
Description
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Vector Consulting is looking for an experienced SAS Developer on a 24+ months renewable contract opportunity in Chantilly, VA.
Position – SAS Developer
JOB SUMMARY:
The agency is seeking a full-time SAS Analytical consultant to work with our client, a Federal Government client in Chantilly, VA. We are seeking an experienced SAS Developer-Analyst to support a variety of development and analytical work. The consultant will need to be proficient and have experience with SAS Programming, SAS Studio and knowledge of Visual Analytics. The consultant must have excellent communication skills and must be able to communicate about the techniques developed and results of analysis both to executives and other analysts in the organization.
QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL
• 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
• 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
Selected candidate will have complete background check.
Please respond with a copy of your resume.
About Vector: Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY
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