Senior Statistical Programmer (Permanent role)

Main Job Tasks

The Senior Statistical Programmer is a delivery-focused role responsible for leading and supporting aspects of the programming effort to deliver technical programming and information components of a project. The position requires strong technical skills, thorough knowledge of the industry, and demonstrated experience leading statistical programming activities and providing technical guidance to other programmers. The individual should be able to independently perform programming tasks, oversee programming deliverables, and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities

Programing for clinical trials:

• Program and validate derived datasets, tables, figures, listings. Process data from the external sources.
• Perform ad hoc exploratory analyses for publications and programming support other functions of Research and Development or other organizations.
• Oversee programing work/deliverables from CROs.
• Contribute to the design/implementation/review of Case Report Form, Data Transfer Specification, Statistical Analysis Plan, SDTM/ADaM Specification documents, Define packages.

Electronic submissions:

• Program and validate CDISC compliant deliveries for the electronic submissions.
• Support in the creation of supporting documentation for submissions.

Project Management:

• Ensure programming deliverables are on time and of high quality.
• Help managing internal contractors and external vendors.

Standards and Guidelines:

• Participate in development of departmental working instructions and guidelines.
• Help in creation of enhanced functions/macros and utilities.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Medical or related discipline.
• BS with more than 5 or MS with 3 years of experience in statistical programming (SAS, R) in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Working knowledge of SAS and its various components.
• Knowledge of R programming in clinical trials
• Familiarity of the drug development process.
• Strong SAS and SAS Macro language skills.
• R programming skills in clinical trials
• Strong knowledge of industry standards.
• Ability to work on data integrations (ISS and ISE).
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to communicate details of the analysis to other team members with less technical experience.