Technical Lead, IT​/Tech, Data Analyst

Technical Lead

Immediate need for a talented Technical Lead with experience in the Banking and Financial Industry. This is a 12+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX. Please review the job description below.

Key Responsibilities:

• The BTS Risk SAS Technical Lead will provide technical leadership in supporting and developing SAS based applications and systems as well as direct business support within our Risk modelling group.
• The successful candidate will have a strong background in the variety of technologies and business knowledge of finance/banking industry.
• Utilize both technology and business knowledge to create solutions, develop process and troubleshoot problems
• Should have worked in SAS in Unix based platform.
• Should be familiar with functionalities & usage of SAS Enterprise guide, SAS E-Miner, SAS Model Manager Tools.
• Should have knowledge in data import/export, SAS workflow analysis. Should have Unix /Linux shell Scripting experience.
• Detailed SAS programming knowledge and different interfaces.
• Proven record of taking ownership of tasks. Strong communication skills with at levels of the business.
• Conversant with standard technical architectures, e.g. networking, servers, etc. Strong systems analysis experience.
• Writing Design documents and Technical documents/presentations. Preferred/ Nice-to-haves:
  Experience with Risk systems including SAS modelling, data preparation.
• IFRS9 exposure
• Experience in Oracle RDBMS/Netezza

Key Requirements and Technology

Experience:

• Leverage thorough understanding of business process and system processes to make recommendations and propose technical/non-technical solutions to meet business requirements.
• Experience with Consumer Risk Models
• Facilitate business requirements gathering sessions with the business owners and key technical resources.
• Elicit business and user requirements from business partners using a variety of Industry Standard/Best Practices techniques.
• Use a variety of proto-typing techniques to validate and verify that the proposed solution will meet the business and user requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners to define acceptance criteria for proposed solution Translate the business and user requirements into system requirements.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.

Our client is a leading Banking and Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.