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Title: SAS Developer - Phone/Skype Hire

Duration: 6 – 12+ Months

Location: Beachwood, OH

Rate:- $50/hr  

Job Description:

The SAS Developer will be responsible for managing requirements, designing, developing and testing new programs and updating existing ones.  Responsibilities also include post analysis work (mostly data centric) to monitor and ensure the new requirements are implemented properly and stated and socialized in developed specifications documents.

Responsibilities

Responsible for collecting all in-scope business requirements

Able to prioritize requirements and negotiate on deployment timeframes.

Ability to perform detailed analysis to ensure all aspects of the business requirement are understood (while balancing an air of pragmatism - knowing when to stop)

Able to formalize business requirements, ready for two way communication - business communications up and technical communications down

Capable of managing all technical aspects of the new requirements

Capable of working with the test team to develop/review test scripts and profile of test data

Design, develop and test efficient SAS programs.

Identify requirements to become ICD-10 compliant.

Perform some of the aspects of data analysis (i.e., data acquisition, data management, programming and documentation).

Soft Skills

Excellent communications skills - both written and oral

Self-motivated, high energy and a team player, who would take complete ownership of the project or module assigned

Ability to analyze and solve problems both proactively through business requirements negotiations and reactively by analyzing resulting data

Working knowledge of relational data structures / models / relationships

Must be able to deliver within short time frames

Good knowledge of Healthcare data and terminology.

Specific Technical Skills

IT experience

SAS programming experience.

o          Design and develop complex SAS Programs.

o          Excellent Data Step programming skills.

o          Excellent SAS Macros programming skills.

Should have a strong technical background - should have been a lead developer / technical lead previously

Must have worked on medium to large size custom application development projects

Experience with large integration projects a plus

Intermediate level SQL skills (must be able to develop more than basic queries)

Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools, in particular, Word and Excel

Thanks & Regards

Kevin

Amtex System Inc.

50 Broad Street, Suite 801

New York, NY-10004

Cell:  917-463-4086

GTalk: amtex.kevinb

E-mail: kevinb@amtexsystems.com

Web: www.amtexsystems.com