SAS Consultant/Data Engineer Location: Telford or Worthing (hybrid working 2 days onsite) Type: Full Time, Permanent Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 DOE + comprehensive benefits package Deerfoot Recruitment is working with a major consultancy partner on a long-term public sector engagement and is seeking experienced SAS Consultants/Data Engineers to join a growing data team. This is a key role within a large-scale data portfolio, supporting critical programmes focused on revenue optimisation, fraud detection, data management and analytics. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in designing, building and supporting robust SAS-based data solutions, working closely with product owners, architects, engineers and senior client stakeholders. Key responsibilities include:Designing and delivering secure, high-performance SAS solutions for data integration and analyticsBuilding and enhancing data pipelines covering ingestion, transformation, reporting and fraud detectionSupporting live services, incident resolution and continuous improvementCollaborating in Agile delivery teams and contributing to engineering best practiceKey skills and experience:Minimum 5 years experience as a data engineer or similar roleStrong background as a Data Engineer on complex, large-scale data platformsProven expertise with SAS 9.x (SAS Viya (3.x/4) bonus to have)Solid ETL, data modelling and batch scheduling experienceUnderstanding of performance optimisation, CI/CD and scalable solution ..... full job details .....