Technical Architect - Application Engineering

About SAS

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About The Job

SAS Managed Cloud Services (MCS) is seeking a Technical Architect - Application Engineering with a passion for delivering exceptional customer outcomes through application engineering and integration design for SAS Viya solutions on Azure and AWS.

This role focuses on designing, engineering, and standardizing how SAS applications and third-party software integrate, deploy, and operate on top of the SAS Viya platform within our managed cloud environments. You will help ensure consulting teams and customers have the tools, patterns, and engineering guidance required to successfully build, deploy, and operate custom solution workloads at scale.

You will partner closely with platform engineering, consulting, and operations teams to translate solution requirements into repeatable application architectures, enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and consistent customer experiences.

As a Technical Architect - Application Engineering, You Will

• Design and guide application architectures built on SAS Viya solutions, including integration with third-party services, data platforms, identity providers, and enterprise systems.
• Establish engineering patterns and reference implementations that enable consistent development and operation of custom solution workloads across Azure and AWS.
• Partner with consulting and customer delivery teams to enable successful implementation of solution architectures and integrations.
• Define best practices for application configuration, deployment workflows, and lifecycle management within cloud-native environments.
• Improve developer and operator experience by simplifying application onboarding, deployment, and troubleshooting processes.
• Promote secure-by-design engineering practices aligned with organizational security and compliance requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and integration approaches to enhance SAS solution capabilities and customer outcomes.
• Participate in technical communities and contribute thought leadership aligned with SAS innovation initiatives.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support secure software development goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical architecture, application engineering, or solution integration roles.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise application integrations upon distributed system architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices-based applications.
• Understanding of APIs, service integration patterns, and application lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to produce technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and solution design documents.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Willingness to travel as business needs require.
• Personal qualities aligned with SAS values: curiosity, passion, authenticity, and accountability.

Additional Competencies, Knowledge And Skills

• Experience with SAS Viya, analytics platforms, or large-scale data processing environments.
• Familiarity with Agile development and Scrum Product Owner practices.
• Background in customer success, developer relations, or platform enablement.

World-class Benefits

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Additional Information

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.

Key skills/competency

• Technical Architecture
• Application Engineering
• Cloud Solution Design
• SAS Viya
• Azure
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• API Integration
• Distributed Systems