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Job Posting Title
Sr. SAS BI Specialist - BI and Reporting - Remote
Job Description Summary
Deliver against business intelligence objectives including creating solutions for information delivery and data analytics projects with the goal of empowering and enabling business users with actionable information. Expectations include independently analyzing, designing, and developing business intelligence and analytics solutions using coding standards and best practices in close partnership with business teams, architecture, and IT leaders; as well as, mentoring junior staff by providing guidance and design consultation.
Job Description
Are you looking for a team where you can flex your skills as a Senior Developer of SAS based Business Intelligence and Reporting? Are you looking for a team that values your work-life balance and promotes your strongest attributes? If yes, the Prime Business Intelligence (BI) team wants you! As a Senior BI Specialist, you will be working with a team of talented analysts and developers who offer decades of knowledge and committed mentorship empowering you to exceed even your own aspirations. If this sounds like a good fit, I invite you to apply for our Senior BI Specialist role focused primarily on SAS reporting and analytics!
- Independently creates solutions with SAS, providing accurate information quickly to the organization.
- Queries multiple types of data sources, and designs programs to run as efficiently as possible
- Designs solutions to run in a production environment and schedules SAS programs using our in-house scheduler
- Responsible for development initiatives that may drive the creation of new data assets or information exchange to support the creation of decision support applications or business intelligence/analytics solutions.
- Work closely with other staff to identify levels of effort and task dependencies as assigned by the Manager.
- Trains and mentors' business intelligence and analytics staff on use of new technologies, design and development approaches and the application of established standards and best practices for business intelligence development and data design.
- Collaborates with other developers on the application of standards and best practices and contributes to the evolution of best practices and standards aimed at improving scalability, performance, and maintainability; as well as, mentoring junior staff on the use and value of those standards.
- Oversees and/or participates in the research and evaluation of new business intelligence, analytics and/or data visualization technologies.
- Determines the best technologies to use for our environment considering future direction, risk, consistency and return on investment.
- Considers the technology changes that have taken place over the years and helps project the trends for the future. Trains and mentors programming staff on use of newly acquired/adopted technologies.
- Creates design documents that may be needed to initiate new development efforts, which may come from knowledge of the overall environment or incoming requirements and specifications.
- Reviews incoming projects to determine if existing technologies/capabilities can support the needs of the incoming request.
- Will support, either through consultation, coaching, mentoring or by specifically performing the necessary tasks independently, the analysis, designs and development of reports, dashboards or data sources as needed.
- Maintain communication with customers, internal and external, to facilitate analysis and troubleshooting for production issues or to ensure high levels of customer focus relating to business intelligence and analytics solutions.
Responsibilities
- A bachelor's degree in business intelligence, management information systems, mathematics, statistics, analytics, computer and information sciences or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required
- 2+ years of work experience in BI or related discipline, other employment or volunteer activities or demonstrated proficiency in Business Intelligence/Analytics project
- Prior experience as a Business Intelligence Developer or Data Analyst supporting business intelligence, reporting, analytics or data warehouse projects.
- Hands on experience with Business Intelligence/data visualization tools/platforms/environments - SAS , IBM Cognos and SQL
- Experience researching and implementing new information systems in a business setting.
- Demonstrated experience using multiple databases and tools and using leading business intelligence, analytics or data visualization technologies.
- Familiarity with a broad range of data platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Netezza, Teradata, RedShift, Snowflake) and
- Hands-on knowledge of data warehousing and business intelligence concepts, including various forms of modeling (dimensional and relational) and warehousing strategies.
- The ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies while considering the business needs and direction. Experience serving as the senior member on business intelligence or analytics/data warehousing projects with responsibility for design and approach decisions on projects.
- The ability to overcome technical, political, environmental, and/or product owner related impediments to drive results.
Nice To have:
- Familiar with working in an agile environment (using JIRA, and attending scrums)
- Familiar with versioning software (Subversion or GitHub)
- SAS Viya Experience
- SAS Stored Processes familiarity
- Scheduling SAS programs in a production environment rather than just adhoc analysis
- Python experience
Work Experience
Work Experience - Required:
Business Intelligence, IT
Work Experience - Preferred:
Education
Education - Required:
A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered., Bachelors - Computer and Information Science, Bachelors - Information Technology, Bachelors - Mathematics, Bachelors - Statistics
Education - Preferred:
Bachelors, Bachelors
Certifications
Certifications - Required:
Certifications - Preferred:
Potential pay for this position ranges from $80,920.00 - $129,480.00 based on experience and skills. Pay range may vary by 8% depending on applicant location.
To review our Benefits, Incentives and Additional Compensation, visit our Benefits Page and click on the "Benefits at a glance" button for more detail.
Prime Therapeutics LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace. We encourage diverse candidates to apply and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, family status, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class under federal, state, or local law. Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their position; and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.
Positions will be posted for a minimum of five consecutive workdays.
What We Do
Everything we do is connected to helping people get the medicine they need to feel better and live well. It’s meaningful work and we’ve been doing it for over 20 years.
In the pharmacy benefit management (PBM)industry, we’re different. We’re owned by 18 not-for-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans. This allows us to control costs and empower our employees to put members first. It’s a successful combination. We have the lowest pharmacy trend in the industry and serve 28+ million members throughout the US.
In addition to core PBM services, we work closely with our clients to implement the right benefit design, clinical and specialty programs, formulary and networks. A few key products:
• NetResults™
• Specialty Drug Management
• Best in Care™
• GuidedHealth®
• Advanced Fraud, Waste and Abuse: Member and Prescriber Investigations
• Prime Analytics™
• CareCentered Contracting™Controlled Substance Management Program
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Prime is always looking for smart, purposeful people to join our team. We’re growing fast which means there are plenty of opportunities to advance and grow in your career.
At the same time, Prime supports flexibility and offers generous PTO so you can enjoy an enviable work/life balance. We’re a privately held company -big enough to make a difference and small enough for you to have an impact.
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