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SAS Viya Developer/Admin

Huntington Bank · Chicago, IL · $70,000–$140,000 a year · Full time

Posted May 4, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you worked directly with business users to shape a technical solution.

What they are checking: Whether they partner well with AML business teams to deliver what they actually need.

Tell me about a defect you shipped and how you fixed it.

What they are checking: Whether they own mistakes and improve their testing habits afterward.

What would you do

A monitoring scenario stops generating alerts after a data change. How do you troubleshoot it?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that missing alerts are a serious compliance risk and investigate fast.

How do you estimate work in sprint planning when vendor software behaves unpredictably?

What they are checking: Whether they give honest estimates and flag risk in an agile team.

About the work

Walk me through how you've deployed SAS Viya across multiple environments.

What they are checking: Whether they have real experience installing and configuring Viya rather than only writing SAS code.

How does AML transaction monitoring work, and where does your software fit in it?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the business purpose of the systems they build.

How would you design a pipeline to ingest large transaction data sets into Viya reliably?

What they are checking: Whether they can engineer ETL, API or pub/sub ingestion that is complete and auditable.

How do you prove to auditors or regulators that all transactions made it into monitoring?

What they are checking: Whether they build reconciliation and controls into data pipelines.

How do you handle change control for a production AML system?

What they are checking: Whether they respect testing, documentation and approvals for regulated systems.

What SQL techniques do you use to make queries over very large tables run well?

What they are checking: Whether they have practical skills to handle bank-scale data volumes.

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The full job description

As published by Huntington Bank.

Description This position is an onsite position and available to be filled at any Huntington Corporate office location (see location options on posting) Summary: As an SAS Viya Developer/Admin for AML Software and systems, you will install, configure vendor software, applications, and data ingestion frameworks, which are typically complex in nature, or creates new programs to support user and management needs. You will be accountable to your team for the successful implementation of working software and code to support AML needs, primarily related to transaction monitoring. You will mainly be responsible for SAS Viya deployment to multiple environments & use SQL and other data tools to accomplish this and may need to engineer solutions to standardize and ingest large data sets to complete your tasks (ETL, API, Pub/Sub). You will also work in an agile team and regularly attend agile events/ceremonies to organize and understand work. You will also engage in direct conversations and partnership with the AML business teams, other business units, and your peers to ensure that you deliver the best technical solution possible. Duties and Responsibilities: • Develop and/or enhance working software to support bank needs. • Participate in planning/scope estimates, provide detailed design, development, unit testing, defect fixes, implementation planning/execution, change controls, and production support/incident resolution. • Provide technical leadership via design direction, code reviews, and unit testing direction. • Provide partnership and guidance to testers, analysts, and business partners • Diagnose root causes to complex technical problems e.g., data quality issues, performance, availability of application. • Provide L3 production support 24/7/365 spread across the team. • Research and facilitate the monitoring, high availability and support methodology for our production environment. • Assist with maintaining evergreen system documentation containing design content, admin guidelines, onboarding procedures, and troubleshooting guides. • Configure users, groups & roles for various levels across business functions. • Follows agile principles and understands agile events • Resolves problems which occur in production systems. • May serve as technical leader in the development of automated systems or procedures. • Provide technical guidance and training to junior resources • Perform other duties as assigned Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree or 4+ additional years of equivalent experience. • 5+ years of related experience in software development, including SAS, SQL, Python, Java, Spring Boot and ETL tools. Preferred Qualifications: • Professional experience in SAS Viya platform and installation • SAS Viya Administration experience (v 3.5 or higher) will be highly weighted. • Exposure to writing micro-services (API build out) & scripts in SAS. • Hands-on work experience in AWS Cloud Platform / Kubernetes framework. • Ability to schedule periodic updates and keep up with Vendor patches/fixes to keep the environment current. • Familiarity with Big Data and platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, EWS and Cloud Technologies. • Experience using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Zenoss, Splunk, and DataDog • Expertise in using GitHub Repositories • Experience with ADO and DevOps practices and mindset • Experience with continuous improvement principles and frameworks • Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision in an agile team environment • Solid understanding of Agile software development and delivery practices. • Can-Do attitude and strong team-based accountability • Strong communication and collaboration skills, focus on customer service • Microsoft Office experience • Experience working in multi-platform environment • Ability to balance both development and support roles • Experience in working on projects that involve business segments • Strong analytical, strong troubleshooting skills and excellent communication skills • Strong interpersonal skills, focus on customer service, and the ability to work well with other IT, vendor, and business groups Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) ( No = eligible for overtime pay) Yes Workplace Type: Office Our Approach to Office Workplace Type Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team. Compensation Range: $70,000 - $140,000 Annual Salary The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education.  Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.  In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Tobacco-Free Hiring Practice: Visit Huntington's Career Web Site for more details. Note to Agency Recruiters: Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.

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