SAS

Senior Technical Architect

SAS

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AzureCloudDockerKubernetesMicroservices

About the role

  • Serve as the dedicated technical architect for all customer modernization initiatives, including Viya 4 solution mapping, Azure migration planning, and compliance assurance.
  • Act as a product and solution expert for SAS Viya and related SAS platforms, providing thought leadership to bridge new R&D advancements into managed application services for government analytics workloads.
  • Design, document, and maintain scalable, resilient, and compliant hosting architectures across SAS datacenters, Azure, and future Azure Government environments.
  • Develop technical solutions to accelerate delivery cycles.
  • Provide input and direction on leveraging automation, standardized deployment models, and advanced cloud capabilities (AKS, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, Data Platforms).
  • Lead architectural reviews and technical risk assessments to keep alignment with NIST 800-53, HIPAA, CJIS, FERPA, and other data protection requirements.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with SAS R&D, Cloud & Information Services, and Security to resolve technical blockers and support ongoing environment migration and integration.
  • Drive platform modernization by developing cloud-native, scalable resource strategies for both stateful and stateless services, ensuring efficient use of cloud resources and operational excellence.
  • Communicate actionable recommendations regarding security, reliability, operational performance, and cost optimization to both SAS and customer stakeholders.
  • Support delivery and migration scheduling, production readiness, and post-migration technical validation for major program workstreams.
  • Stay current with SAS Managed Cloud Services architecture standards, Azure platform advancements, and compliance frameworks.
  • Provide technical leadership and direction to other technical resources and engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, engineering or similar.
  • 8+ years of technical architecture experience.
  • Excellent problem solving, organizational, decision-making written, oral and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to conceptualize client needs and translate into specific solutions.
  • Advanced negotiation skills to manage customer expectations.
  • Experience architecting for public cloud delivery. Azure preferred.
  • Experience with microservices based applications.
  • Experience architecting for stateless and stateful services.
  • Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Produce and communicate design documentation (architecture diagrams, non-functional requirements, and detailed solution architecture).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
  • Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
  • Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
  • There’s a pharmacy too! The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
  • An industry-leading 401k plan.
  • Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
  • Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
  • Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
  • Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
technical architecturecloud-native solutionsmicroservicesDockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesAzurecompliance assurancesolution architectureautomation
Soft skills
problem solvingorganizational skillsdecision-makingwritten communicationoral communicationinterpersonal skillsnegotiation skillsclient needs conceptualizationcollaborationleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in engineering
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