SAS Application Support Analyst

Join us as a SAS Application Support Analyst 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
• System Monitoring and Maintenance: Regularly monitoring system health and ensuring platform stability. Applying patches, upgrades, and hotfixes to keep the environment secure and updated. Conducting backups and recovery to protect critical data
• 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
• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Diagnosing and resolving system, application, and performance-related issues. Providing technical support and collaborating with other IT teams to resolve problems promptly
• Linux/Unix Environment Expertise: Working knowledge of Linux/Unix commands and scripting for automation and optimization. Familiarity with server configurations, log management, and shell scripting
• 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.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• 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.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.