Sas Administrator - Ottawa, Canada - Canadian Institute for Health Information

Canadian Institute for Health Information

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Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Category

Information/Infrastructure Technology

City

Ottawa, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SAS Administrator
Who we are
We are an organization comprised of industry thought leaders who are passionate about health data and want to make a difference in the health care field. We are an independent, notforprofit organization and together with our partners we provide essential information on Canada's health systems, enabling decisions that lead to healthier Canadians. As a valued member of the CIHI team, you and your work will have a pivotal role in the evolution of Canada's health care systems.

CIHI is recognized as an exceptional place to work that embraces diversity, respect, integrity, collaboration and innovation.

Learn about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the work being done to create a more inclusive and welcoming organization by focusing on how we learn, govern and practise.

At CIHI, we recognize what matters to our employees. Some of the benefits of working at CIHI include

HOOPP Pension Plan (Defined Benefits Pension)
Retirement Planning Program
Generous vacation days for permanent and longterm contracts
Worklife balance
Career Planning Program
Learning and Professional Development Program
Flexible benefits program from your first day on the job for permanent and longterm contracts

Why is this role important?

Contribute senior technical expertise to CIHI's SAS user community. Provide support and expertise relating to best practices for SAS program coding, SASbased report generation, query performance tuning, data analysis and database access. Support CIHI's technical SAS environments. Assist in the planning of backup and recovery procedures and processes, performance monitoring/tuning and security policies and procedures. Respond to degradation of SAS server performance. Provide consulting support to SAS users, including effective utilization of SAS resources. Formulate the necessary policies and procedures affecting management of the SAS environments; adding SAS Administrator support to all corporate initiatives involving SAS through change propagation; query design and other tasks as assigned.
What you'll do
1.

Provide technical expertise to CIHI's SAS user community:

Communicate coding bestpractices to SAS users through effective mentoring and knowledge transfer strategies
Perform SAS code reviews for users as requested
Work with project teams using SAS technology to ensure deliverables meet business, functional and technical requirements
Maintain current knowledge of advancements in all areas of SAS technology
Support CIHI's Information Security Management System (ISMS) through the implementation, management and/or monitoring of required Information Security controls.
3. Participates in key ISMS processes as required, including but not limited to Risk Management, Audit and Assessment, Monitoring and Reporting and Patch & Vulnerability Management.
4. Act as liaison between ITS and CIHI's SAS user community; proactively respond to emerging user needs.
5. Monitor SAS environment performance and responds to any degradation to ensure that user deliverables are being met. Identifies areas of improvement to Management/Senior Management.
6. Lead the resolution of SASrelated technical issues. Includes working directly with SAS Technical Support and internal IT resources in the resolution of said issues.
7. Work with Database Administrators and IT staff to define data access rules as well as in the planning, implementation, maintenance and support of security controls.
8. Participate in the development, maintenance, testing, and implementation of backup and recovery procedures for CIHI's SAS environment. Provide input on the maintenance and support of the corporate disaster recovery strategy.
9. Provide SAS Administrator support to all initiatives involving SAS through change propagation; query design and other tasks as assigned.
10. Provide seniorlevel advice to the Manager of Technology Services on the selection of SAS related software and hardware. Participate in the development of the overall corporate SAS usage strategy.
11. Lead SASrelated resource capacity estimates and planning exercises.
12. Ability to meet occasional offhours support requirements or variable work hours and provide oncall services as needed.
What you'll bring to the table
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent education/experience.
Minimum 5 years experience as an Administrator in a SAS server environment or as a senior SAS developer.
Solid SAS programming (BASE, Graph) and administration skills. Solid conceptual and architectural understanding of SAS Access, Integration Technology, Metadata server, Enterprise Guide and Enterprise Miner would be preferable.
Experience with SAS 9.4 in a multitier Windows environment (installation and configuration)
Experience with a SAS environment using the followin