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Mendix is a low-code app development platform:

First, what is low-code? Low-code is a visual approach to software development that enables you to abstract and automate every step of the application lifecycle. Gartner predicts that by 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity.

Mendix, the global leader in enterprise low-code, is fundamentally reinventing the way applications are built. The Mendix platform was created to promote collaboration between Business & IT teams so that an entire organization can participate in the application development process. With Mendix, thousands of forward-thinking companies around the world like Ford Auto, Zurich Insurance, Freshfields, and Red Bull, can unleash their best ideas quickly.

Mendix is repeatedly ranked a Leader in analyst reports from Gartner and Forrester. In the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multiexperience Development Platforms, Mendix placed at the very top of the Leaders quadrant.

Mendix is a Siemens Business:

Siemens is a Top 10 Global Software Company and a leader on Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies in the World! With the acquisition of Mendix in 2018, Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enhance the digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics meet the future of innovation. Mendix employees have the opportunity to work in a hyper-growth environment with the support of Siemens unbeatable legacy and resources.

Siemens DISW SLC provides a replacement for SAS language users that allows SAS customers to move to a flexible, modern analytics platform with minimal business impact. SLC runs programs written in the base SAS language. It also supports Python, R, and SQL, and allows combining code written in any of these languages making it the perfect way to facilitate major modernization projects as well as maintain libraries of base SAS language programs at reduced cost.

Siemens DISW has recently split its global services delivery model into zones, and with change comes opportunity! We are seeking a highly motivated individual to lead services delivery in the Americas for the SLC product. The SLC Solution Architect is a player/coach role who will ramp up to become proficient in all aspects of an SLC migration project, while at the same time helping to scale an Americas-based practice.

Ideal candidates will have several years of SAS platform administration, extensive enterprise architecture understanding, including SAS GRID, and be proficient with Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, DI Studio, Metadata Server and the base SAS languages like DataStep, DataStep 2 and most PROCS.

Key facets of the role will span the full customer lifecycle from sales pursuit through implementation and support of the platform and include both functional and technical skills.

What You Will Do:

• Establish an effective working relationship with Sales and Presales to assist in the final stages of deal closure, attending presales technical calls as required.
• Perform discovery with customers to understand their existing SAS environment with the key goal of determining migration feasibility.
• Analysis of existing SAS language programs, working with product development and data science teams to determine effort/duration requirements.
• Analyze existing SAS infrastructure, understand target requirements from customer taking into consideration any modernization needs, and prepare a recommended target architecture. Determine customer usecases of unsupported language elements and software modules, preparing a route to live.
• Defining the training requirements, resources available and delivery deadlines for a migration project.
• Attend customer standups and project review meetings and be the face of Siemens DISW SLC.
• Responsible for the technical delivery of migration projects to include:
  • Supporting the deployment and configuration of SLC software onto customer environments.
  • Support the configuration of any number of 3rd party applications/drivers/DBs required by SLC.
  • Training of customer system admins on the effective use of SLC/HUB as required.
  • Training of customer migration delivery teams on best practices for code migration.
  • Triage technical issues to ensure prompt resolution, working with L2 support.
  • Development requirement scoping, bug definition and working with product management and engineering when required to oversee deployment of maintenance builds/bug fixes.
• Travel to client locations on an infrequent but asneeded basis.

What You Will Need:

• 3+ years experience as a SAS platform Admin
• Extensive experience using common SAS modules:
  • Enterprise Guide
  • Enterprise Miner
  • DI Studio
  • Metadata Server
  • SAS GRID
• Extensive enterprise software knowledge to include:
  • Windows Server configuration
  • Linux REHL 8+ configuration
  • Database configuration/connectivity
  • Firewall and networking experience
• 3+ years SAS language programming
• Experience with Cloud Computing technologies like AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI
• Excellent presentation preparation and presenting skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English ability.
• Strong commercial awareness.
• Knowledge and experience of data architecture, data processing, database systems and analytics
• Knowledge of the SQL language and other business analytics tools and languages
• Knowledge of SLC supported platforms LINUX, , AIX, MacOS and Solaris

Nice to Haves

• Liaise with different teams - Engineering, Database, Support, Cloud, Testing, QA, Documentation.
• Data processing programming languages (R, Python).
• Experience setting up and administering Docker/Kubernetes environments
• Knowledge of SAS on Mainframe zOS and LINUX

How You Will Be Successful:

• Selfmotivated with a passion for new technology
• Strong problem solve
• Not afraid to ask for help

$117,000 - $233,000 a year

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