Job Title : Data Engineer (SAS Developer)

Experience : 7-9 Years

Location : Hyderabad / Pune / Bangalore

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer (SAS Developer) with a strong background in SAS programming and the Banking/Financial Services (BFSI) domain. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing and maintaining SAS-based ETL solutions, processing large volumes of financial and risk data, and optimizing data pipelines for performance and reliability.

The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and testing teams to design, develop, and support enterprise-scale data integration and reporting solutions. Experience with DevOps practices, version control systems, modern data platforms, and AI-assisted development tools will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain robust SAS programs for enterprise data processing and reporting.

- Develop and support SAS ETL workflows for extracting, transforming, and loading data from multiple source systems.

- Build scalable and efficient data integration pipelines to support banking and financial reporting requirements.

- Perform data extraction, cleansing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and loading activities.

- Analyze business requirements and convert them into efficient SAS solutions.

- Process large-scale banking, customer, transaction, and risk datasets with high accuracy.

- Develop reusable SAS macros and automation scripts to improve development efficiency.

- Optimize SAS programs and ETL jobs for improved performance, scalability, and resource utilization.

- Perform code optimization and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in large-volume data processing.

- Ensure data quality through comprehensive validation, reconciliation, and exception handling.

- Collaborate with business analysts, solution architects, QA teams, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality data solutions.

- Support end-to-end testing activities including Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Integration Acceptance Testing (IAT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

- Participate in defect analysis, debugging, issue resolution, and root cause analysis.

- Manage source code using Git or Bitbucket and follow branch management, pull request, and code review processes.

- Participate in CI/CD and DevOps-based deployment processes.

- Support production deployments, post-deployment validation, and production issue resolution.

- Prepare technical documentation, ETL specifications, data mapping documents, and operational support guides.

- Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance, security, and regulatory standards.

- Continuously evaluate new technologies, modern data platforms, and AI-assisted developer tools to improve productivity and solution quality.

Mandatory Technical Skills :

1. SAS Development :

- Strong hands-on experience in SAS Programming.

- SAS Base Programming.

- SAS Macro Programming.

- SAS ETL Development.

- SAS Data Step Programming.

- PROC SQL.

- SAS Procedures.

- SAS Data Management.

- Batch Processing.

2. Data Engineering :

- ETL Development.

- Data Integration.