SAS Consultant (Madison, WI)

SAS Consultant (Programmer/Analyst) Are you a brilliant analyst and programmer? Are you just as comfortable interacting with and advising clients as you are in your work station? Here is your chance to work on challenging projects for Fortune 500 clients, while working directly for a small, flexible employer. Sample projects include: complex reporting systems, designing and building databases, ETL systems, conversions, and automating existing processes. Consultants with an aptitude for training our full curriculum of courses are strongly preferred. Job Duties:

• Program from formal or informal specifications
• Resolve data issues and business rule questions with client
• Manage time and varying deadlines
• Create written documentation on all projects

Experience and Knowledge Required:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) with concentration in computer science or quantitative/analytical field
• Experience in programming or analytical field (will consider candidates of all levels)
• Experience with SAS, SQL, or other analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Some travel is required

About Systems Seminar Consultants: Since 1982 Systems Seminar Consultants has specialized in high quality IT training, consulting and placement services for a wide range of corporations and government agencies. Our team of recognized experts is dedicated to providing business and IT solutions to help our clients manage and understand their data, create reports and design applications. The projects we manage are automated. Our programs are efficient. We provide excellent technical and post-project support. To apply, please send your resume and salary requirements to one of our recruiters at careers@sys-seminar.com.

Survey Analyst (Palo Alto, CA)

Description We are seeking an energetic person with strong analytical skills to join our Operations team as a Survey Analyst. The Survey Analyst's primary responsibility is executing projects. This includes designing, scripting and testing surveys, executing pre- and post-processing of data for client delivery, as well as fielding and monitoring ongoing studies. Strong computational abilities are essential. Some prior experience with either a programming language (C/C++, Java, Python, or Perl) or scripting with statistical software (SAS, SPSS, R/S+, Stata) strongly preferred. Survey Analysts are also responsible for performing analyses that support internal research, answer questions about panelist satisfaction, and help to monitor the survey process. Analysts will learn to manage knowledge gained from previous projects and use these skills in future projects. A successful Analyst will be able to develop and suggest methods which may improve the way a survey is fielded and the survey-taking experience for our respondents Qualifications Candidates should have the following qualifications:

• Excellent computational and data management skills. Familiarity with scripting or programming is extremely helpful.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Results driven focus and ability to see issues through to completion in a timely manner
• Knowledge of statistical packages and data management tools (R/S-Plus, SAS, SPSS, Stata, SQL, Excel). Ability to work with and maintain large datasets.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to reporting accuracy
• Understanding of statistics and ability to manage and summarize data
• Prior experience or training in survey research is a plus (but not required)
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at one time

The ideal candidate has performed quantitative research in either an academic or professional environment. Candidate should have a distinguished undergraduate academic record and familiarity with data analysis software. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to: jobs@polimetrix.com About YouGov/Polimetrix Polimetrix is the North American business unit of YouGov. Founded in May 2000, YouGov is a professional market research agency pioneering the use of the Internet and information technology to collect higher-quality, in-depth data for market research and public consultation. Based in Britain. YouGov has pro-actively recruited respondents from all ages, socio economic groups and regions of Britain. In 2007, YouGov purchased Polimetrix, a venture-funded startup based in Palo Alto, which develops analytics, infrastructure, and databases for survey and political research, market research, and financial analysis of market trends. YouGov/Polimetrix now has an international base including the US, Britain, Nordic Regions, Middle East, and Germany. YouGov/Polimetrix offers a unique solution for opinion measurement using a combination of web surveys, large-scale databases, and cutting edge statistical techniques. Representative samples of respondents are drawn from the PollingPoint panel and interviewed on the internet to collect data with accuracy, speed, and efficiency. Polimetrix was founded in 2004. It currently has a staff of twenty experts in survey research, political science, statistics, and information.

SAS ETL Developer (Arlington, VA)

Job Description: Position: Sr. ETL Developer, Credit Risk Analysis The ETL Developer will be a member of the Credit Risk Analysis group for E*Trade Bank, which has $30+ billion in managed consumer loans across credit cards, auto loans, and mortgage products. This person will be a key player on a fast-paced dynamic team with high visibility across departments and to senior management. The Risk Analysis group is comprised of three teams, ETL, ODS, and Analysis & Forecasting. This person will be on the ETL team and be responsible for creating/modifying SAS v9 programs to load newly acquired loans and loan updates into the SAS data warehouse. The Bank’s business intelligence reporting hinges on the loading of timely and accurate data across multiple platforms. The candidate should have experience with data warehousing schema design, data mapping from source file to target files, normalizing both continuous and categorical data, and handling slowly changing dimensions. The candidate must be familiar with ETL concepts and operations, Meta data requirements, DB2, MS Access, and Oracle database structures and extraction tools (e.g. SQL). The candidate must have advanced SAS Macro and debugging skills, equivalent to the SAS Advanced Programmer Certification credential. In addition, the candidate should have experience either working with consumer lending data or a strong understanding of consumer lending products. The person will manage a mission critical, time-sensitive process to extract, transform and load, with automated SAS code, several source systems and rapidly integrate new source systems into the process flow by working closely with the source system operators, developing consistent data definitions and a production data map. This person will also write production SAS code to load new data sources and handle variable exceptions and transforms. Required Skills: Minimum Experience: • Bachelor degree in related area (Sciences, Statistics, or Computer Science). • SAS Advanced Programming Certification or equivalent competency • 2 years experience with SAS Enterprise Guide. • Consumer Lending industry experience. • Strong time management skills in a mission critical load environment. • Strong understanding of meta-data preparation and processing. • Moderate UNIX skills including basic shell scripting in K-shell. • Strong Data Mapping experience/ experience with SCD’s. • Data warehousing/ Data mart best practices. • Strong analytical, problem solving and quantitative skills. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across business units. • Ability to maintain own work flow and meet deadlines. • Ability to analyze a situation, identify critical path and remediate the problem. • 5-10 + years of relevant work experience. • High energy self-starter with good communication skills. Duration: 12+ Months Location: Arlington VA Rate: $65-$80hr Company Name: Focus Technology Contact Person: Wayne Mercer Contact E-Mail Address: wmercer@focustech.com Company Web Site: focustech.com

Biostatistician, contract (Fort Worth, TX)

Req. ID: 14005 Contact: Name: Victor Bill (victor@itvls.com) Location: Fort Worth TX Duration: 6+ Months Required Skills: A minimum of a 4-year college degree in Statistics, Biostatistics or a related subject, excellent communication skills and experience using SAS software in statistical analysis and reporting are required. Job Description: Biostatistician with pharmaceutical clinical trial experience is a must.

The incumbent will work closely with statisticians and provide support for the statistical analysis of clinical studies in our Biostatistics Pharmaceutical Products group in R&D.

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SAS Programmer (NJ)

Contact: JTerebetski@designstrategy.com Our direct client located in NJ is in need of a SAS Programmer. The successful candidate will work on the statistical programming of clinical trials.

These are the main tasks:

• Prepare high quality SAS programs to generate tables, listings, and graphs for clinical trial data.
• Validate SAS programs according to Client's SOPs.
• Contribute to the creation of programming specifications.
• Define and test the mapping of clinical trial data into the Generic Data Model.

The candidate should have experience with the first three bullets plus good communication. They are looking for people with at least 7 years+ experience with SAS within the Pharma industry.

We are looking to find programmers who have project lead experience. Client wants someone who can lead rather than just a program, preferably 2 years project management.

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