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 analytics Building and enhancing data pipelines covering ingestion, transformation, reporting and fraud detection Supporting live services, incident resolution and continuous improvement Collaborating in Agile delivery teams and contributing to engineering best practice Key skills and experience: Minimum 5 years experience as a data engineer or similar role Strong background as a Data Engineer on complex, large-scale data platforms Proven expertise with SAS 9.x ( SAS Viya (3.x / 4) bonus to have) Solid ETL, data modelling and batch scheduling experience Understanding of performance optimisation, CI/CD and scalable solution design Confident client-facing and consultancy skills ?? Security Clearance: This role requires SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it. Applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past 5 years. Some restrictions may apply based on nationality and residency. This is an excellent opportunity to work on high-impact public sector systems within a collaborative, technically strong environment. Apply today to find out more. SAS Consultant / Senior SAS Consultant / SAS Developer / SAS Data Engineer / SAS Programmer / Lead SAS Programmer / SAS Analytics Consultant / SAS Technical Consultant / SAS Solutions Consultant /Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer / Data Platform Engineer / Data Integration Engineer / Data Pipeline Engineer / Data Solutions Engineer / Enterprise Data Engineer ??????? Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.