SAS Developer - Birmingham
1 day ago
Birmingham
About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. At HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you. Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. HMRC is one of the UK's largest government departments and one of the country's biggest organisations. Almost every individual and business in the country is a direct customer of HMRC. We collect more than £500 billion a year in revenue from over 50 million customers across the UK. This is an exciting time to join HMRC as we continue our journey to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world. To achieve our ambition, we are investing in ground-breaking initiatives and programmes to transform our tax systems, building a dynamic organisation with a culture that focuses on, and significantly invests in, the continual development of our people. Job description Data Engineering and Analytics (DEA) is made up of 23 people, who are primarily SAS, SQL or Oracle programmers working in system development roles. We form part of HMRC's wider Debt Management (DM) team. DM focuses on helping customers comply fully with their tax obligations, and on making timely and targeted contact with customers who do not comply. DEA maintains and improves DM's large-scale data warehouse, which is a 'big data' analytics and debt management system, complete with a decision engine, using SAS on an Oracle platform. This system combines data from a range of sources, captures changes, and builds a single source of business intelligence for DM. This is used to place customers on the most appropriate debt-recovery journey in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and customer experience. Using SAS, we evaluate customer responses to HMRC interventions, and create behaviour models and risk profiles. We continually enrich the data to meet the requirements of current and future campaigns, and work to identify and resolve system issues and inefficiencies to improve campaign deployment. This is an exciting time to join the team as we transition our systems to the Cloud, and work to understand and exploit the powerful and dynamic analytical environment it brings. We are also heavily involved in the transformation programme which will see DM's large-scale data warehouse replaced by a new capability during . Person specification • As a Senior System Developer, you will deliver the system components necessary to integrate our debt management system with the operational transactional systems, which enable front-line teams to effectively perform debt collection activities., • Leading on solution designs for your own projects, you will develop architecture and systems design, including the design, development, testing and delivery of complex ETL processes. This will be achieved using SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Viya and / or SAS Data Integration Studio, GIT Lab - skills you will either bring to the role or develop during your tenure., • You will be comfortable engaging with a wide range of people, translating complex technical data into more accessible language, and vice versa. Working collaboratively with the business and technical leads, you will review business requirements, contribute to technical requirements, produce documentation, and provide assurances on delivery. You will be able to readily translate this into a comprehensive work plan, complete with timelines and risks to delivery., • Working with the business, you will develop quality controls to assure the accuracy of your work, and ensure customers are being engaged in the most appropriate manner., • You will have at least recent commercial experience in the SAS language. We are not providing training for non SAS people you will be able to demonstrate a significant level of SAS knowledge., • You will have proven experience of developing data to create reports and visual products to inform business analysis, and support recommendations to drive business performance., • Experience of undertaking development work on multi-terabyte databases would be an advantage, as would experience of SAS Data Integration Studio.E, • Experience of using GIT Lab, • Changing and Improving, • Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary., • Family friendly policies., • Personal support., • A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences. Your CV should be for up to your last 3 roles with 250 words per role., • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020