SAS Backfill, VP

Job Title: SAS Backfill, VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• We are looking for a highly experienced and result-oriented Vice President to lead SAS decommissioning and migration initiatives ,critical data operations, monitoring, and monitoring initiatives across SAS and Adobe data ecosystems.
• The role requires strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, and ownership of large-scale transformation programs including SAS decommissioning and migration initiatives.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Position Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Guidance for setting out the responsibilities and tasks to be carried out in the position:

• Take full ownership of SAS monitoring activities, ensuring system stability, performance, and issue resolution.
• Lead and drive SAS decommissioning initiatives, including planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Provide strong leadership in Adobe data ecosystem environments, ensuring smooth operations and integration with enterprise data platforms.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on understanding of Python, ETL and PySpark for data processing,  and problem-solving.
• Independently handle complex technical discussions, architecture reviews, and production issue resolution.
• Lead and manage teams effectively, ensuring delivery aligned with business objectives and timelines.
• Mentor and guide team members on individual development plans (IDPs), skill enhancement, and career growth.
• Establish governance, reporting structures, and performance tracking mechanisms for operational excellence.
• Drive continuous improvement, automation, and modernization across data platforms.
• Cooperation with product owners, scrum masters, engineers, and security specialists in an agile work environment
• Compliance with general coding standards and security mechanisms

The following are typically some of the tasks for which an SAS Lead is responsible for along with SAS engineer:

Activities :

• SAS License renewal yearly for prod and non-prod
• SSL renewal yearly for Prod and half-yearly for non-prod using certhub
• GCP Service account renewal yearly for Prod and quarterly for non-prod and recertification yearly
• Business users’ creation and updating using dB passport portal to access ECCSAS Unix server prod and/or non-prod 
•  Uploading of SSH key of business/technical user using UKM portal 
• Business user creation to access SAS Metadata server using SMC
• Users Incident related: SAS License renewal in desktop/laptop , Connection to ECCSAS server using SAS base; SAS EG 
• Running ACL script to assign/update permissions for new/existing user
• Restart of SAS services on need basis only

Your Skills & Experience

• Experience in working with SAS Metadata and user administration
• Knowledge on common SAS products SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/CONNECT and common interactions of SAS with Oracle databases and PC File formats
• Strong experience in SAS platforms, monitoring and production support.
• Proven record in large scale decommissioning/ Migration programs
• Hands-on experience in Linux OS ,  Python and Pyspark
• Working knowledge on Adobe data platforms
• Ability to manage large technical teams in a VP capacity

Technical Skills

• SAS, Python, Pyspark, Adobe, ETL

Leadership Expectations:

• Strategic ownership of platform operations and modernization roadmap.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment
• Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement
• Ensure high performance delivery aligned with organizational goals.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.