Senior SAS Programmer

About the role

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. The Senior SAS Programmer designs or modifies database designs to solve database processing problems, performs database analysis and design tasks in the production environment, and administers, monitors, tunes, and supports databases. This full-time role is based in Kolkata, India.

What you’ll do

• Designs or modifies database designs to solve database processing problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results
• Performs database analysis and database design tasks of databases in the production environment
• Ensures that databases meet required operational standards and performance levels (as measured by reliability, response time, query execution time, etc.)
• Participates in database consultations and database design reviews
• Develops and implements backup and recovery strategies
• Performs activities including denormalization, developing data archival schemes, sizing, creation of data definition language and database objects, referential integrity and security enforcement and a
• Performs the administration, monitoring, tuning and support of databases in the production environment

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Two (2) years of information technology experience
• One (1) year experience in the database administration area
• Ability to proactively identify complex problems and needs and develop solutions/recommendations to solve problems

Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience Req