Senior Technical Architect, SAS 9 Platform- Remote or Hybrid | Cary, NC

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About the job

The Innovation and Automation Services team is looking for a Technical Architect with SAS 9 platform expertise. In this role, you'll be responsible for a variety of critical tasks. You will be designing, evaluating, and maintaining the SAS 9 platform SAS Managed best practices for our customers.

In this role, your responsibilities include ensuring reliability and recoverability by architecting SAS 9 applications to handle failures, moving beyond traditional redundant hardware to a more resilient cloud framework. You'll focus on cost optimization with an emphasis on balancing business goals with efficient Azure spending.  Additionally, you will own creating the designs for operational excellence that maintain acceptable application performance through reliable deployments and effective monitoring. Finally, a crucial aspect of the role will be strengthening adherence to security standards by leveraging Azure's security services to safeguard data and systems.

This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams at SAS, providing expert guidance on SAS 9 capabilities in private cloud, and leading the integration of these solutions into managed application services within Cloud and Information Services (CIS).

As a Senior Technical Architect, SAS 9 Platform, you will:

• Be the SAS 9 architecture expert and CIS thought leader for bringing new R&D product changes and updates into SAS 9 managed application services.
• Produce detailed solution architectures to be implemented in our supported hosting locations.
• Work across multiple teams in Sales, R&D, and CIS to assess hosting architecture requirements.
• Evaluate and maintain alignment of hosting capabilities with SAS 9 R&D roadmaps.
• Communicate recommendations regarding cost optimization, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance efficiency to migrate SAS 9 solutions into managed application services.
• Participate in ongoing training to launch and ready SAS 9 migration services for sale in private cloud with product management.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, engineering or similar.
• 8+ years of technical architecture experience.
• Experience architecting for public cloud delivery. Azure preferred.
• Experience with SAS 9 or n-tier based applications.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce and communicate design documentation (architecture diagrams, non-functional requirements, and detailed solution architecture)
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Travel: as business requirements dictate.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Agile development experience
• Scrum Product Owner experience

World-class benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans. 
• Medical plan options include…
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays. 
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center). 
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge! 
• An industry-leading 401k plan. 
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1. 
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days. 
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees 

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