Vice President, Enterprise Quality

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Company: SAS Institute
Location: Cary, NC

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Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker – always asking, “What if?”

If so, you may be the new team member we’re looking for. Because at SAS, your curiosity matters – whether you’re developing algorithms, creating customer experiences, or answering critical questions. Curiosity is our code, and the opportunities here are endless.

What we do

We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Our curiosity fuels innovation, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo and changing the way we live.

What you’ll do
As Vice President, Enterprise Quality at SAS, you are a technical leader that is passionate about applying leadership and collaboration, with the discipline of execution to lead Enterprise Test focused on enterprise and higher order testing, quality and compliance, test automation strategies, enterprise deployment and integration testing, enterprise performance and enterprise security. The Enterprise Test organization directly compliments the product delivery teams by advancing their vison, developing their day to day quality engineering skills, and generally transforming all of them (developers and testers) into better testers. This highly visible role will report to the Senior Vice President of Research and Development Engineering and interact with senior leaders and development teams across Research and Development (R&D) and the company.
We are looking for a technical leader to approach this role with new ideas, a sense of urgency, alignment to the CTO vision and most importantly the drive to succeed, with a proven ability to deliver.

You will
  • Accelerate and extend automation through practices such as API testing best practices, shareable tests and mentoring and enablement
  • Develop and expand an end-to-end testing framework inclusive of an automation roadmap enabling R&D’s path to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
  • Lead the R&D efforts of quality practices to achieve industry-supported compliance and certifications including revise current standards, policies, and best practices to align with our CI/CD strategy; rewriting the Quality Imperative and driving forward the ISO 27001 certification.
  • Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing skillsets, partnerships, roles and processes and develop strategies to improve and accelerate toward CI/CD principles and requirements.
  • Ensure repeatable and consistent processes aligned with the corporate vision of quality standards, best practices, metrics, certifications.
  • Manage the heavily matrixed environment with a focus on collaboration and prioritization influencing and enabling the decentralized product testing organizations.
  • Create and execute higher order testing to assess enterprise readiness of complex workflows, integration, performance, security, and deployment.
  • Drive a consistent approach to performance evaluation and reporting.
  • Lead a cohesive strategy of coverage consistency, deployment, integration, and migration.
  • Create and reinforce a goal-oriented, collaborative culture amongst and across the business units.
  • Create and support a culture that is focused on critical thinking; prioritize the development of business acumen and its applicability to help customers achieve business value.
  • Proactively identify and navigate potential issues in order to meet deadlines and schedules.
  • Ensure necessary change and support documentation.


What we’re looking for
  • You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
  • You have a bachelor’s degree.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise test and continued delivery tools, processes and technology.
  • Demonstrated leadership, especially a matrix environment and change agent skill sets.
  • Ability to bring form and structure to the ambiguous.
  • Extremely strong analytical, presentation, advanced abilities in business modeling and excellent communication skills.
  • Proven ability to interface, influence and manage with all levels of organization.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.


Other knowledge, skills, and abilities
  • A leader of strong intellect and personal presence who inspires confidence in people at all levels.
  • Self-directed; able to spearhead initiatives, translate plans into specific actions across a team, and execute with urgency.
  • High degree of leadership, independent negotiation and decision-making skills.
  • Entrepreneurial with a can-do / hands-on mentality.
  • Excellent listener who absorbs and respects the opinions of others.
  • Decisive and able to influence.
  • A collaborative leader who empowers others.
  • One who is accountable and in turn, holds people accountable.
  • A change agent – leading the Team to the desired state through understanding.
  • A coach and developer of people.
  • Leads by example and can generate respect and loyalty from peers, superiors and subordinates, as well as external links.
  • Emotionally intelligent, resilient, and mature.
  • Impeccable ethics and a high-level of integrity.


Why SAS

  • We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.
  • Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn’t about fitting into our culture, it’s about adding to it – and we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring.


This position will be seated out of SAS Headquarters in Cary, North Carolina

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SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.


Additional Information:
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 race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency

Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant’s education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.