Career Opportunities
Department: Biometrics
Job Title: Statistical Programmer (III or Senior)
Description:
The Statistical Programmer is responsible for developing SAS programs for the checking, presentation, and analysis of clinical study data for submission to regulatory agencies. The programs must be developed in accordance to departmental SOPs and guidelines, as well as validation criteria specified by regulatory agencies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sr. Statistical Programmer is responsible for:
- Technical project management of clinical studies.
- Analysis and evaluation of clinical data, including the ability to recognize inconsistencies and initiate resolution of data issues.
- Working with the Biostatistician and Medical Monitor to develop or review software specifications for the clinical study data outputs and analyses required for the study report.
- Developing and documenting procedures for creating software systems and ad hoc reporting.
- Developing and/or executing software validation procedures and test plans.
- Developing software to transfer data from outside sources, such as CROs or clinical laboratories, to in-house systems.
Job Requirements:
A Bachelors Degree with 5 years SAS programming experience and a minimum of 5 years experience in supporting clinical trials data analysis. Good verbal and written communication skills are essential. Skilled programming with the SAS DATA step and macro facility is required. Experience with SAS/Graph and SCL highly desirable. Knowledge of statistics, perl, HTML or web hosting is a plus.