SAS Product Support Engineer, Connecticut

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COMPANY:Travelers Insurance

POSITION:SAS Product Support Engineer

DURATION:Perm

LOCATION:Hartford, CT

DESCRIPTION: Your role as a SAS BI Engineer will be to help us successfully implement and roll-out SAS BI solution platforms for consumption by our business partners. A key success factor for us in our team members is working together to go above and beyond our client expectations. The candidate will be responsible for the gamut of application management and support responsibilities in a SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence setup in a large-scale environment. The day to day duties require an understanding of the SAS BI Architecture, experience in deploying and supporting SAS BI server components and client tools along with a substantial knowledge of the UNIX platform. Perform full Infrastructure Development Life Cycle (IDLC) responsibilities including: gathering and analyzing requirements, designing and developing infrastructure requirements, preparing installation documentation, provisioning applications and deploying the SAS Infrastructure into production. Diagnose reported application problems and work with operations staff to remediate production problems. Ensure that we adhere to established design and security standards. Work with quality assurance team to ensure applications integrity through development of test suites.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED •3 to 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience in infrastructure design and development and proven technical leadership •Extensive knowledge and experience in SAS with very large transaction databases in the Windows or UNIX environment •Bachelors Degree in engineering or science related field, or equivalent work experience •.Net and SQL experience preferred •Experience in the insurance industry preferred •Prior experience as part of a large team to develop and deliver a large-scale application that utilizes a data warehouse is required •Ability to work well in both individual and team environments, and have a high level of written and oral communication skills as well as good interpersonal skills and have ability to manage time, difficulty and priorities of multiple tasks effectively •Teradata experience a plus

CONTACT INFORMATION: Go to http://www.travelers.com/ Navigate to Careers Search for SAS in CT-Hartford