Summary
Paul Thomas is a Director and seasoned SAS-focused data engineering leader with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise ETL, data warehouse and BI solutions across banking, insurance and pharmaceuticals. He combines deep, hands-on expertise in SAS DI/EBI, DI Studio, metadata management and LSF with practical skills in Python, PHP, JavaScript and multiple SQL dialects—often "writing the code that writes the code" to automate and industrialise processes. Paul has led large remediation and migration programmes, stabilised complex SAS estates, and built repeatable ETL patterns that moved teams from ad-hoc reporting to automated, auditable delivery. Comfortable both as a technical lead and a director, he blends strategic data modelling and business-case thinking with day-to-day infrastructure decisions. A regular presenter at SAS conferences, he is known for pragmatically translating regulatory and operational requirements into robust, production-grade data architectures. Based in Leeds, he pairs a mathematics and OR background with a track record of upskilling teams and creating enduring data platform standards.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics Operational Research Statistics and Economics, B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics Operational Research Statistics and Economics at University of Warwick
Post-Graduate certificate Business Administration, Post-Graduate certificate Business Administration at University of Bradford