About the Role
Manager, Analytics Technology – Applications
locations
USA Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R10932
Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.
Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success. Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance. We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions. We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!
The purpose of the Manager, Analytics Technology – Applications position is to (1) own the management and evolution of our analytics applications ecosystem, (2) assess the usefulness of new analytics tools, applications, platforms and (3) enable analytical output delivery and integration throughout the enterprise.
Outcomes and Activities:
Own Analytics Applications
- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
- Maintain the roadmap for analytic application ecosystem
- Assess the usefulness of new analytics tools, applications, platforms
- Design and launch new, and evolve existing, analytics tools, applications, platforms
- Maintain the health of existing SAS platforms used by the Analytics and Business Intelligence departments
- Integrate analytical applications and platforms with other enterprise applications
- Oversee administration of all aspects of SAS and other in-house platforms
- Own the promotion of code from lower environments to production
- Administer batch job schedules in enterprise production scheduler
- Act as a subject matter expert and liaison between business and technical teams
- Translate high level business goals into the tasks and technical specifications needed to accomplish the goal
Knowledge and Skills:
- Apply analytical skills to solve problems creatively
- Extract, manipulate, and load large data sets
- Communicate complex information to others in a way they can understand
- Self-motivated and able to perform with minimal supervision
- Act promptly and effectively when assigned tasks
- Communicate complex information to others in a way they can understand
- Work well with others in a team environment
- Be proactive and make recommendations as opportunities arise
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree or higher or equivalent experience
- 5+ years administering a SAS platform (SAS 9.4, SAS Viya) OR 5+ years administering cloud-based/open-source analytics platforms
- 5+ years programming in SAS/SQL/Python/etc.
- 5+ years leading a team of administrators, engineers and/or programmers
- Knowledge of job scheduling and scripting
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Preferred:
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience with modern AI/ML operations
- Experience with modern visualization tools
- Experience developing, implementing, and/or monitoring statistical models, such as regressions, credit scoring algorithms, or behavioral scorecards
- SAS Advanced Programmer certification
- SAS Platform Administrator certification
- Data warehouse design and development experience
- Experience with Oracle and PL/SQL
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google Big Query, Azure Synapse