Analytics

• Work with the cutting-edge SAS tools for statistical analysis, data mining, forecasting, advanced data visualization, operations research, machine learning, artificial intelligence and so on.
• Design and develop analytic solutions across industry verticals and enterprise functions.
• Develop On-Demand custom-made analytics solutions.
• Open environment to pursue practical research work.
• Learn and work with a global team consisting of experts in various areas of analytics.
• Leverage SAS business analytics platform to give the customers THE POWER TO KNOW®.

ETL and Database Development

• SAS is a market leader providing a state-of-the-art enterprise strength platform for Data Warehousing, Business Analytics, and Predictive Analytics - a challenging and high growth area for database professionals.
• Opportunity to build and optimize data intensive, high performance, scalable applications, which are used by most of the fortune 500 organizations.
• Learn, design and implement advanced database techniques to meet challenges of the Data Warehousing and Business Analytics applications.
• Work in collaboration with SAS experts to design and build data intensive applications.
• SAS has analytic product offerings in various domains like Banking, Insurance, Communications, Retail, Manufacturing and so on. Working on these products enriches the domain knowledge.
• Opportunity to work on model design and development for industry solutions.
• Opportunity to work on latest technology trends in business analytics such as SaaS, cloud computing, big data, streaming data, IOT, Web 2.0 and so on.

Development

• Opportunity to work on well-known technologies, platforms and frameworks, such as, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, SWT, FLEX, Java, HTML5, JavaScript, Python, Microsoft Development Platform, Mobile Technologies.
• Opportunity to be a part of the core framework development that includes development of complex algorithms and application of various technologies in statistical space.
• Exposure to work on different industry-specific domains such as Retail, Banking, Customer Intelligence and so on, and grow with subject matter experts in these specific areas.
• Exposure to exercise and implement design using OOAD, design patterns, techniques and well-known standard tools design and development tools.
• Exposure to exercise agile programming and test-driven development methodologies, dev ops as well as various engineering practices.
• Be a part of the global team, take ownership, and gain experience of end-to-end product development.
• Encouragement for continuous skills upgrade and certifications.
• Be an integral part of the Business Analytic product development teams for varied industry domains and verticals.

Testing

• Opportunity to work on all types of testing, such as, Functional, Test Automation using various industry standard and in-house technologies, Performance, White box using latest programming technologies, Integration and so on.
• Opportunity to work on Platforms (Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP, Linux, VMS), Application Servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, tcServer), Databases (Teradata, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server), and Data Warehousing technologies (ETL, OLAP, High Performance/In-Memory Analytics).
• Opportunity to work on various testing tools and test methodologies.
• Exposure to complete the product development life cycle and release management.
• Encouragement for continuous skills upgrade and certifications.
• Be an integral part of the Business Analytics product development teams for varied industry domains and verticals.

Professional Services

Professional Services Competency Center (PSCC) help clients get the most value from their analytic investment in SAS products and solutions; and thus, improve customer experience with SAS.

PSCC provides business, technical and analytical consulting services to US PSD (and SAS PS organizations globally) in the various domains and solutions including Customer Intelligence, Security Intelligence, Data Management (Data Integration, ETL, BI, DQ) and Analytics for clients in different verticals like Banking, Insurance, Retail, Telecom and Healthcare.

The exciting aspect of being a PSCC Consultant is the variety of roles a person gets to play, working with the broad spectrum of SAS solutions. Some of the roles include:

• Analytical Modeler
• Business Consultants/Analyst
• Developer
• Educator
• Implementation Specialist
• Platform Architect
• Sales/Pre-Sales/POC/POV support
• Solution Expert
• Thought Leader

The Education department provides training and services that encourage SAS users to realize the full potential of SAS. The trainers offer a broad spectrum of customer training services around Analytics and allied areas. These services are provided across the globe, for a variety of customers in Banking, Insurance, Retail, Agriculture, Education, Telecommunications, Government Departments and so on.

The Customer Success team consists of Customer Intelligence domain experts who work with SAS country offices across the globe. The focus is to drive revenue by developing sales opportunities, supporting sales engagements, and enabling the field via training and knowledge sharing.

Alliances Enablement helps our strategic partners leverage the power of SAS for our clients.

SAS Enterprise Excellence Center

SAS Enterprise Excellence Center (EEC), provides key customer experience programs, such as R&D customer scenario testing, benchmarking, and proofs to improve product development at SAS. This ultimately helps ensure success in sales.

EEC Sizing is the process to identify SAS computing resources (cores and memory) for the deployment of the SAS solution(s) being positioned. This process ensures that the estimates are adequate for business problem(s), provides a higher level of confidence to customers, and reduces risk to both the customer and SAS.

The Demo Center Program provides standard software installations that can be used to deliver customized demos, POCs, and hosted software evaluations, anywhere in the world. In addition, the team provides support for partners and other enterprise class hardware.

The Benchmarking Group produces benchmarking briefs for SAS solutions on the latest hardware.

SAS Solutions OnDemand

The SAS Solutions OnDemand (SSO) team is a cloud delivery team, which works on various customer projects in Financial Risk management, Fraud, Analytics, and Customer Intelligence. SSO works across the entire project lifecycle. This includes, requirements gathering, design (data model, data management, BI, application design and analytics), development, testing and support. The team leverages the SAS Private Cloud or Public Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, to host the customer environment, and takes complete ownership and accountability for the projects. This also provides a great learning and enriching experience for the team.

Along with the customer projects, SSO also works on developing field driven solutions and integration framework for SAS customers. SSO team is at the forefront of exploring new areas, such as, Text Analytics, Image Classification, Machine Learning, SaaS, HTML5, NoSQL databases and so on. This enables the team to continuously add value, and provide innovative solutions for the customers.

Product Management

The Product Management team ensures that SAS® products not only align with changing market demands, but exceed market expectations. The team is tasked with delivering market driven products based on customer requirements, market direction and field contribution. Our Product Managers serve as product champions by interacting with customers, prospects, thought leaders and analysts.

Project Management

The Project Management team works at effectively and efficiently applying Project Management principles, to help product groups deliver releases based on the agreed-to quality, scope and schedule. This team provides an important interface between Product Development, Release Management, and other stakeholders, to ensure that the products are shipped in a timely manner. This is done by implementing Agile and PMI practices that help guide the teams at SAS, to manage project risks effectively.

User Experience Design

The User Experience Design (UXD) team provides software Usability and Accessibility design expertise to product teams at SAS. This includes, conducting usability studies, prototyping, producing detailed UI design specifications, and ensuring user interface consistency within a multi-application suite, while creating and maintaining Usability standards. This is carried out with a strong emphasis on human error control, display issues and visual interaction, with a focus on task and objective analysis.

Technical Publications

The goal of the Technical Publications team, is to enrich the overall user experience and get the most out of their investment in SAS, by providing a well written and user-friendly documentation. The team uses state-of-the-art authoring tools and single-source publishing, to develop and deliver outputs in various formats (PDF, ePUB, HTML, and others). These documents are accessible across all desktop and mobile devices. The docs are also checked for style, terminology, grammar, and spelling, using Acrolinx. This helps maintain consistency in the documentation, and use the translation memory more effectively, thus making the documentation more usable for all audiences.

Technical Support

SAS Technical Support team's mission is to help customers make the best use of software products at SAS, through effective and responsive support, active advocacy, and a broad and flexible range of self-help resources.

The goal of the Technical Support team is to keep the customers focused on the road ahead, by helping them to:

• Get their technology up and running with minimal interruption
• Evolve their team's skills with online resources
• Quickly download hot fixes and important updates
• Get well-informed answers from several disciplines, including research and development, consulting and more

The success of SAS Technical Support is attributed to our talented team, who share a passion for problem-solving, and helping our customers succeed.

Leveraging Diversity to build a Collaborative Workforce

We are like potpourri! Just like the aroma of a potpourri, which has a mixture of colors and fragrances, our workforce is a wonderful mix of people from various regions of India, from a variety of educational fields and representing many generations. Above all, we have a wide variety of skills and talent, all directed toward one passion of meeting common goals – SAS’ goals. Diversity enriches our work culture, brings zest and fun to the workplace, and keeps us engaged for a long career with SAS.

We believe that culturally diverse teams yield more creative, synergistic and effective outcomes. A collaborative work force can result in a more productive workplace, which in turn, translates to greater organizational success.

Multi-Generational diversity

At SAS R&D India, we understand that people belonging to different generations differ in their preferred way to work, view toward relationships, rewards, finances, approach to feedback, communication style, and motivational buttons. We continue to strive to make the workplace practices and policies more inclusive, to include the views, opinions and interests of all generations at work. Our job engagements (job design, technical events, and committees) help team members to work across age and job functions. We benefit from one-on-one coaching between a senior and a junior, where the junior also reverse coaches the senior to think differently and invite new perspectives.

We believe that an organization’s potential to leverage diversity is directly proportional to the leadership potential of the organization. We coach our managers to leverage diversity for fueling innovation in the organization and use it as a business advantage.

Gender Diversity

We have healthy ratio of 75:25 of men/women in our workforce in the technology field. Hiring and nurturing women professionals is of paramount importance to us. We believe women professionals bring in their unique set of thinking and perspectives to the workforce. We understand the challenges that women face in the initial 10 years of career. Our policies and practices are designed to encourage women to find work-life balance and smoothly transition to work after child-birth. Our Women Initiatives Network (WIN) team has an active membership of 125 participants, who cater to the professional and personal development of women technologists. Our MOM Buddy Group supports new mothers with knowledge and guidance to come back successfully to work again. Our leaders believe that if they support women professionals during their transition through life stages, we will retain more engaged and high performing employees.

Leadership Diversity

Building a diverse workplace starts at the top with a diverse leadership team. To have the right balance in leadership, SAS encourages open positions for management to be posted internally and externally. Our internal job positing and effective transfer policy within SAS R&D India and across SAS promotes leadership diversity. We see a clear benefit of this diversity in organization decisions. Our diverse leadership team brings different perspectives and unique experiences, which help in finding creative solutions to problems and generating new ideas.

Interests Diversity

We believe when talent walks into our company, they bring along their personal and professional interests with them. It is exciting to harness personal interests of talents in building employee initiated groups toward their love for art, music, sports and social cause. These groups promote and interact through our internal social media portal The Hub.

Whether it is a group singing during lunch time, people running a marathon, a group out on a Saturday supporting a social cause, a set of families flying kites or star gazing, everyone gets to align their interests. We believe, this supports the social fabric of the organization, and enhances collaboration across the organization.

Embracing a national workforce

SAS has been successfully hiring people from various regions and ethnic backgrounds. Advertisements on hiring are released online, and through employee referrals. Online and video resources are used to meet and discuss with prospective employees. Upon hiring, we provide support relocation for new hires and their families to the base location, through relocation assistance.