SAS Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SAS
Sebastian Zwiesler
Last position:
CRM Consultant at Adevinta / kleinanzeigen.de
- Goal: Development and optimization of loyalty and CRM measures for a leading e-commerce platform
- Solution: Identification of promising users, increase in engagement, and long-term retention to drive revenue growth
- Definition of local CRM direct communication for specific segments
- Translation of research insights into actionable recommendations
- Planning and implementation of CRM campaigns in close collaboration with marketing and product teams
- Identification of optimization potential in direct communication
- Collaboration with external agencies on creative solutions, prototyping, and UAT
- Measurement and reporting of key KPIs
Yusuf Demirci
Last position:
Senior Project Management Transformation & Data at BG-PREVENT
Nationwide service provider for occupational medicine, occupational safety, and health management with a focus on prevention, health, and digital transformation.
- Role: Responsible for building and further developing professional project portfolio management in the area of Digital Transformation & Data. Steering and supporting strategic IT and transformation projects as well as supporting the introduction and establishment of project management standards, methods, and governance structures.
Focus areas:
- Build-up and further development of IT project portfolio management
- Analysis and structuring of business and technical requirements
- Steering and coordination of cross-functional IT initiatives
- Stakeholder management at business, management, and service provider level
- Introduction and further development of project management methods and tools (including Jira, Confluence, MS Planner)
- Preparation of decision bases, target visions, and implementation concepts in the context of digital transformation
- Steering and coordination of transformation, digitalization, and organizational projects
- Preparation of decision papers and management documents for steering committees
- Running workshops and stakeholder management with business units and IT teams
- Definition of requirements for dashboards, reporting, and KPI steering
- Support in the project Wissenskompass (requirements analysis and MVP concept)
- Analysis and evaluation of AI support options in knowledge management
- Investigation of AI use cases to improve knowledge provision and use
- Consideration of AI requirements as part of the Wissenskompass concept
- Coordination with strategic business units on the further development of project management standards
- Introduction, configuration, and training of Microsoft Planner to support project and task management
- Conducting user training and supporting employees in the introduction of new ways of working and tools
Peter Herrmann
Last position:
Consultant Financial Data Warehouse Migration Interfaces Reporting at Large bank / central institution
- New connection of the product interfaces of the Financial Data Warehouse (FDW) directly to the Abacus 360 native interfaces
- IT environment: PC, client-server, Citrix remote client, Oracle DB
- Mapping of FDW outbound to Abacus 360 Native
- Analysis of requirements documents, business concepts, and existing interface rules
- Definition of new FDW rules for outbound to Abacus 360
- Adjustment of test scripts for the new interfaces
- Execution of tests to ensure correct data delivery and processing
Chisom N.
Last position:
Founder & Analytics Engineer at Museni Nexus
- Client — Podimo ApS (podcast & audiobook streaming): build the finance reporting layer on BigQuery + dbt + Airflow, including the core revenue-transaction fact tables used across finance reporting.
- API automation: design and build a BigQuery → Airflow → Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central REST-API pipeline to automate sales-invoice posting, with idempotency and master-data sync between systems.
- Delivery: sole engineer on the engagement — requirements, modelling, orchestration and stakeholder communication with the client finance team, end to end.
Philipp Grunert
Last position:
Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH
- Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
- Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
- Development of LLM and NLP models
- Creation of interactive reports
- Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
Thomas Meyer
Last position:
Executive Consultant, Coach to Management at International consulting firm
- Support to management on critical strategic topics with high investment volumes (e.g. large project > EUR 250 million).
- Support for the financing of large projects with a credit volume of EUR 100 million.
- Advice on difficult personnel issues and on filling leadership positions.
- Leadership and management in virtual project environments.
- Strategic consulting on digitalization as well as financing and equity topics.
- Impulse giver and advisor for stuck negotiations, contract design, and solution options.
Christiane Neher
Last position:
Management Consultant at Christiane Neher Management Consulting
Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:
- Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
- Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
- Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
- Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
- Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters
Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:
- Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
- Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
- Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
- Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
- Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
- Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
- Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
- Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
- Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
- Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX
Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:
- Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
- Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
- Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
- Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management
Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:
- Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
- Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
- Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
- MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)
Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:
- Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
- Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
- Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level
Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:
- Analysis of current challenges
- Definition of overarching goals
- Development of a proposal for a new team structure
- Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
- Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy
Guido Bäcker
Last position:
Independent Management Consultant and Interim Manager at BCTC Unternehmensberatung Guido Bäcker
Consulting, training, and coaching in the financial sector on strategy, organization, and IT topics
MorgenFund: Advising the operator of a fund platform on software selection for a sub-ledger "Cash Accounts" based on Virtual IBANs (VIBAN)
Structuring requirements, market screening, creating RfIs, communicating with vendors, and conducting the selection process
UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank: Workstream lead "Booking and Customer Reporting" in the payment transformation project "PULS"
Business analysis, creating business requirements and aligning solution items as part of the functional specification with the bank's IT service providers
Business analysis of SEPA CT and SWIFT MX (.camt, .pain, and .pacs formats), change management, team lead for a virtual team of fifteen line experts, and stakeholder management
equensWorldline Germany: Program management for three projects of the SWIFT service bureau (CBPR+, ESMIG, and Euro1Step1 migration) as part of the SWIFT MX migration
Managing individual project managers regarding overarching goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordinating with dependent projects and programs
Project management/PMO: interim project management, stand-in for project managers, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO tasks
Ramy Saad
Last position:
Integration Manager at Produktion und Logistik
Senior IT Integration Manager for an international transformation program, focusing on IT integration, data migration, stakeholder management, dependency steering, governance and management reporting.
Bullet points
- Steering IT integration and transformation activities in an international enterprise environment
- Coordination between business, IT, specialist departments and external service providers
- Planning and tracking roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and risks
- Preparing status reports, decision papers and management updates
Dieter Ratz
Last position:
Driver analyses at Genactis GmbH
- Calculation of attribute importance based on driver analyses
- Interpretation, reporting, and consulting
Ludo Prokop
Last position:
Senior Consultant at Insurance
- DWH modernization
- Migration from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC/CDI
- Migration from IBM DB2 to Databricks
Technologies: Informatica IDMC, Databricks
Monika Thepale
Last position:
Senior ETL Lead at Takeda GmbH
- Led design, development, and deployment of data solutions supporting a major pharma acquisition for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, delivering transparency reporting systems across Azure,Databricks (Python and Shell Scripting) platforms.
- Owned,Designed and developed scalable ELT pipelines to process Customer and Product data using Azure, complex SQL, Databricks, and shell scripting, enabling efficient data integration and processing across multiple sources including job orchestration and workflow automation.
- Implemented performance optimization techniques (query tuning, parallelism, workload optimization), improving system efficiency and processing time.
- Applied strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess technical solutions and support business requirements for compliance and transparency reporting.
- Designed scalable data foundations suitable for downstream analytics and AI workloads.
- Led data quality initiatives by assessing multiple source data, defining quality metrics, and establishing processes for monitoring and continuous improvement.
Marc Matt
Last position:
Freelance Data Specialist at BrightlySoftware – A Siemens Company
- Migration of customer data from a private cloud to AWS
- Optimizing data transformation jobs and migration from Talend to AWS Glue
- Automation of all migration steps
- Used technologies: AWS, Python, Lambda, CloudFormation, SQLServer, AWS Stepfunctions, Glue, PySpark
Andreas Fischer
Last position:
Project Manager & Portfolio Owner for Infrastructure (Automotive) at MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH
- Overall coordination of service providers for all infrastructure topics at a production site being set up in Baden-Württemberg
- Design and finding solutions for internet connectivity, building office communication networks, setting up WLAN in production and administration buildings, IP address management, password policies, time tracking, access control systems, backup strategies, emergency power planning, operating concepts, cost planning, event management, workplace setup including laptop/mobile phones/telephony, remote support, print servers
- Selecting suitable external service providers and planning to meet needs for spare parts, repairs, on-site service, network and workplace support including on-site system replacement by providers
- Choosing suitable external service providers for facility management and building technology (fiber optic connections, data center infrastructure, cable ducts etc.)
- Coordination with clients and service providers
- Escalation management, schedule control
- On-site presence for service meetings and managing service providers
Manikanta Rangaswamy
Last position:
Data Engineer at Insurance client
- Design, development, and maintenance of end-to-end ETL pipelines for scalable and reliable data integration
- Support in data quality checks, testing, and migrations
- Development and maintenance of dbt models for structured, modular, and reusable data transformations
- Use of AI-driven development to improve ETL job creation and code quality.
- Development of CI/CD for automated deployment.
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Statistics of experts using SAS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
96%
Master's degree or higher
77%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAS
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What SAS is
SAS is a long-standing analytics environment used for data preparation, reporting, statistical modeling, and decision support. Companies rely on it for repeatable business analysis, regulated reporting, and production workflows that must stay stable over time.
Common work
- Build and maintain data steps, transformations, and validation logic
- Create recurring reports and management dashboards
- Support statistical analysis, forecasting, and risk models
- Document code, outputs, and business rules for audit trails
Tools around SAS
Strong specialists often work with SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide, Base SAS, SQL, and connected data sources such as relational databases and file-based feeds. They also understand how to move work between legacy SAS jobs and newer cloud-ready setups.
When companies hire help
Teams bring in freelance SAS expertise when reporting logic is fragile, a migration is blocked, or a project needs short-term support from someone who already knows the environment. That is common in finance, insurance, pharma, retail, and public-sector teams in Germany, where SAS is often tied to long-lived data processes.
What good specialists do
Good professionals write clear code, check data quality early, and explain results in plain language. They understand batch processing, permissions, scheduling, and how to keep outputs consistent when upstream data changes.
Working model
Many SAS projects can be handled remotely, especially analysis, code review, and report development. On-site work can help when the environment is sensitive, access is limited, or business users want close workshop-style collaboration. In Germany, clear documentation and structured communication matter just as much as technical depth.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SAS? These answers cover the essentials.
SAS is used for data preparation, statistical analysis, reporting, and controlled business workflows. Many teams use it when outputs need to be repeatable, traceable, and easy to validate. It is common in regulated settings and in older analytics estates that still carry core business logic.
SAS is often chosen for established enterprise processes, stable reporting, and governance-heavy work. Python or R may be preferred for flexible open-source analysis, but SAS still has a strong place where existing code, validation rules, and business continuity matter. The best choice depends on the current stack and the need to modernize or maintain.
A strong SAS specialist usually knows SQL, data quality checks, and practical database work. Experience with SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide, and batch scheduling is valuable too. For analytics work, statistical thinking and clear documentation are just as important as coding.
For simple reporting changes, a focused SAS professional with solid production habits may be enough. For migrations, model validation, or messy legacy code, you want someone who has handled similar structures before. The more business-critical the workflow, the more important it is to match for direct project experience.
Yes, much SAS work can be done remotely, especially code review, report development, and analysis support. In Germany, remote collaboration works well when access, security, and sign-off processes are clear. Some teams still prefer on-site workshops for sensitive systems or business alignment.
SAS Viya is the newer cloud-ready analytics environment from SAS. It matters when companies want to modernize legacy SAS workflows, improve access for teams, or move parts of the stack into a more flexible setup. Specialists who know both legacy SAS and Viya can be especially useful in transition projects.
Look for clean code, clear explanations, and examples of stable production work in SAS. Good specialists can describe how they handle data checks, edge cases, and reproducible results. They should also be able to explain how they work with business users, not just how they write code.
Yes, SAS is still relevant where governance, auditability, and continuity are important. New projects may start in Python or cloud tools, but many companies still need SAS for reporting chains, validated analytics, and long-lived business logic. The real question is whether the project needs a modern build, maintenance of an existing estate, or both.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 859 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 77% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (93%), and French (32%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Banking and Finance (75%), and Professional Services (52%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAS in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Business Intelligence (77%), and Project Management (77%).
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