Junior Cloud Data Science Architect

Junior Cloud Data Science Architect - Hybrid

Nice to meet you!

We're the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We're also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

The Global Technology Practice is a world-wide team of experts, providing thought leadership and direction, establishing, and promoting best practices and performing functions that are considered critical to the overall success of SAS.  We are focused on providing expert support for sales cycles and ensuring customer adoption of the latest modernization of SAS software. We collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure accurate, consistent delivery of marketing and product capability messages.

To prepare you for an opportunity with SAS Global Technology Practice team, SAS invests in your curiosity by providing you an intensive collaborative technical training program. At the Technical Enablement Academy, you'll learn to use SAS software to meet the complex computing and analytic needs of our customers. Key stakeholders will provide guidance, coaching and expert feedback. You will also have an opportunity to achieve a professional SAS certification. To enable your successful transition to the Global Technology Practice Team, we will also provide best practices on customer interactions.

As a Junior Cloud Data Science Architect, you will:

• Apply technical architecture knowledge to design prototypes for demonstration purposes.
• Ability to take complex technical concepts and simplify for other non-technical audiences.
• Strategize with sales team on objectives for customer meetings, understand how the analytic lifecycle relates to overall sales plans and to maximum customer value.
• Leverage knowledge of open-source analytic packages and how they work with SAS Viya, to increase SAS's credibility primarily in sales situations.
• Deliver standard, customized and/or strategic, senior level solution demonstrations and presentations outlining the functional capabilities, competitive advantages, and business benefits of the SAS Viya Platform as they apply to client needs.
• Assist in the response to RFI/RFP's utilizing the RFP Repository and crafting thorough and compelling answers.
• Provide reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects, and technologies.
• Participate in product and cloud training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings and assigned cloud architectural areas.
• Understand, utilize and communicate best practice methodologies internally and externally.
• Provide support for regional business development activities and marketing events.
• Work proactively with Product Strategy teams, Customer Advisory and other internal technical counterparts to strategize on opportunities, cross-training and knowledge transfer.

Additional Responsibilities

• Participate in workshops during requirements and design sessions.
• Participate in solution positioning.
• Liaise with sales, pre-sales, technical support and product management to determine the best action to implement a customer environment.
• Up to 15% travel, as business needs require.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with technical command line tools such as Linux, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Basic knowledge and some exposure to cloud platforms (like Azure, AWS or GCP), enterprise architecture and/or data engineering
• Requires 0 - 5 years of systems engineering, project management, applications development, technical architecture, and design and/or customer support
• Fluent business level language skills in English, other European languages are a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Good problem solving, organizational, decision-making, written, oral and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• You're curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence ever.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it's not about fitting into our culture - it's about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it's essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

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