topic Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs? in SAS Programming

SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

edasdfasdfasdfa — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:23:29 GMT

I guess this would depend on which industry they worked in but what would the main day-to-day jobs/roles require.

It doesn't seem like a data analyst type role but more of a statistical programmer?

Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

SASKiwi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 01:27:31 GMT

In my experience most SAS roles are multi-disciplinary. In any one day I do any or all of these:

SAS architect
SAS administrator
Data analyst
SAS programmer
Systems analyst
SAS tester
System documenter

Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

ballardw — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 04:40:15 GMT

I will add to @SASKiwi

Data Assurance / Quality processing

Survey Design (and analysis)

Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:15:03 GMT

I call myself a "data engineer" (as opposed to data scientist).

I'm the one who enables the data scientists to do their job; I keep the data warehouse server running, does the administration, and maintains all the ETL jobs that get the data into the DWH.

This also means that my coding skills extend well beyond SAS. Perl, C, shell scripting (bash/ksh) play a major role.

Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

edasdfasdfasdfa — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:54:25 GMT

Well this seems a bit extreme.

I hope you get compensated fairly for having to do all of these different tasks.

Re: SAS Programmer - Typical Roles/Jobs?

PaigeMiller — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:15:26 GMT

@edasdfasdfasdfa wrote:

I guess this would depend on which industry they worked in but what would the main day-to-day jobs/roles require.

It doesn't seem like a data analyst type role but more of a statistical programmer?

I consider myself a statistician, who programs in SAS. A large part of what I do is data analysis and traditional statistics forms a part of that.