SAS Developer IV at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide IT expertise and advice in the design, creation, testing and documentation of new and enhanced applications and systems in accordance with agreed framework of programming standards.
• To produce logical and technical specifications from functional specifications and to write the code for medium to large applications.

Are you someone who can:

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effectively.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by  providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
• Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries.
• Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support development environments. Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
• Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during programming execution.
• Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
• Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
• Minimise system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure minimisation of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
• Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system failure due to capacity.
• Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies and develop technical and business skills.
• Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities, and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
• Supervises the work of other developers. Provides technical assistance to fellow developers and other Information Technology (IT) team members.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

• Minimum Qualification – BSc In Computer Science
• Preferred Qualification - BSc In Computer Science

Experience - 

• 5 – 10 years working experience
• Experience in Fraud Managment or AML solutions
• Thorough experience in building solutions on SAS platforms utlising intergration of various modules (e.g. Base programming, macros, sql, AML Framework, java, html, JSON, etc.)
• Strong documenting and technical translation skills. Able to design integrated solutions and guide advise techincally. Able to challenge design principles.
• Experienced in system integrations

Additional Knowledge – 

• SAS 9.4: Administration and Configuration (Beneficial)
• SAS Viya: Administration and Configuration (Advantage)
• SAS Base Modules / Data Manipulation  (Base Programming 1+2+3, Macros, SQL)
• SAS 9.4 STP Server, Web Report Studio (Beneficial)
• SAS CAS (Beneficial)
• SAS 9.4 ECM (Beneficial) or SAS Viya VI Solutioning (Advantage)
• SAS 9.4 FCM + SNA (Beneficial) or SAS Viya AML Solution (Advantage)
• SAS Visual Analytics (Advantage)
• SAS Visual Investigator (Beneficial)
• Basic Java / Jscript (Beneficial)
• Pyhon (Beneficial)
• HTML, XML, JSON (Advantage)
• Database (Postgres/Oracle/SQL Server/Teradata) (Beneficial)
• Agile Methodology
• SOAP and/or REST API

End Date: October 2, 2025