Principal Statistical Programmer

Katalyst HealthCares and Life Sciences

$100K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Expertise in SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, and knowledge of SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH, SQL, and ODS
  • Knowledge of SDTM, ADaM, FDA, and ICH guidance
  • Understanding of CFR Title 21, Part 11 regarding electronic records
  • Strong organizational skills for managing multiple projects
  • Consistent experience as a lead statistical programmer on multiple projects
  • Strong understanding of drug development and interdependencies of functions
  • Proven ability to mentor junior team members

Responsibilities

  • Convert specifications into SAS code for datasets and output generation
  • Ensure overall project delivery including clinical trial and regulatory reports
  • Create statistical analysis outputs for publications and regulatory submissions
  • Establish and uphold standardized programming procedures
  • Develop and validate SAS macros for compliance with regulatory standards
  • Maintain clinical processing workflow systems
  • Lead project-specific training and manage stakeholder relationships

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative working environment
  • Exposure to high-impact clinical projects and regulatory processes
  • Strengthening of leadership skills through mentoring opportunities
  • Engagement with multidisciplinary teams
Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
  • Convert specifications into SAS code to generate datasets and Tables, Listings, and Figures outputs.
  • Be responsible for overall project delivery, including clinical trial reports and other regulatory submission deliverables.
  • Create statistical analysis outputs to be used in support of final reports, abstracts, posters, Manu scripts and other clinical publications; support systems to produce electronic regulatory submissions.
  • ssist in establishing standardized programming procedures and work instructions.
  • Develop, enhance, evaluate, and validate standardized macros and utility programs to ensure that regulatory requirements are met through validation/compliance activities.
  • Develop and maintain clinical processing workflow systems.
  • ssist in the development of client proposal documents.
  • Provide leadership, project specific training, stakeholder management, external sponsor support, resource management, and project management for the required programming tasks supporting clinical trial activities.
  • Provide input into and negotiate statistical programming timelines. Ensure that timelines are adhered to and coordinate and lead a statistical programming team to successful completion of a study within given timelines and budgets.
  • Trained in sponsor SOPs and disseminate knowledge to project team members as appropriate.
  • Provide input into, and mentor statistical programmers to provide input into documents produced by other functions (e.g., biostatisticians, data managers, medical writers, etc.)
  • records handling (e.g., Chapter 21 of the US Code of Federal Regulation - Part 11), and electronic submission of clinical data to agencies (e.g., e-CTD guidance and CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards)
  • ssist in updating/writing PROMETRIKA standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Develop tools in SAS® for data analysis and reporting that comply with regulatory requirements.
  • Develop specifications (e.g., metadata files), annotate CRFs and create SAS® programs for the mapping of raw datasets to CDISC SDTM standards.
  • Create define.xml files from metadata files for SDTM and ADaM
  • Convert data received in other formats to SAS® datasets.
Requirements:
  • Must have expertise in SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, and knowledge of SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH, SQL, and ODS
  • Knowledge of SDTM, ADaM, FDA and ICH guidance
  • Understanding of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21, Part 11 that covers the management of electronic records and electronic signatures in computer systems.
  • Good organizational skills across individual projects and managing own and teamwork loads. Ability to organize, manage and complete multiple assignments with challenging timelines independently and effectively.
  • Consistent experience as a lead statistical programmer on several concurrent projects
  • Strong understanding of drug development, including knowledge of interfaces and interdependencies with other functions
  • Strong mentoring skills as shown by leadership of projects and if applicable, junior team members.
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Proven ability to learn new systems and function in an evolving technical environment.
  • bility to negotiate and influence to achieve results.
  • Good presentation skills
  • Good business awareness/business development skills (including financial awareness)
  • bility to create, maintain and define strategies to improve the efficiency of running a clinical trial.
  • Work effectively in a quality-focused environment.
  • Knowledge of other programming languages and database management software packages is a plus.

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