Sas Application Support Admin

Join us as a SAS Platform support Lead at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. As SAS Platform support Lead, you'll be acclimatizing SAS platform into the overall IT infrastructure acting as the bridge between the SAS platform, IT department and business users. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders, you need to take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do. Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements.

To be successful as a SAS Platform support Lead you should have experienced with:

- SAS Platform Administration: Expertise in installing, configuring, and managing SAS environments. Ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of the SAS platform.
- Proactively identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks
- User Management and Metadata Security: Managing user accounts, groups, and roles in SAS metadata. Implementing robust security policies and access controls. Auditing and maintaining metadata integrity
- SAS Grid Management: Experience managing SAS Grid environments, ensuring optimal workload balancing and resource allocation
- Communication and Collaboration: Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Documenting configurations, processes, and best practices for the team
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical skills to address complex challenges in SAS environments. A proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks

Some other highly values skills include:

- Cloud Platform experience with AWS
- Familiarity with Agile principles
- Working knowledge of GitHub/Jenkins
- Familiarity with incident/change/problem management tool like Service Now
- Working knowledge of scheduling tools like TWS

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Pune.

**Purpose of the role**

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

**Accountabilities**
- Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
- Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
- Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
- Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
- Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
- Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing adv