ICON plc

Real World Data Programmer

ICON plc • $95K — $115K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in a quantitative field with 3+ years of experience, or Master's in analytics with 7+ years in RWD.
  • Strong programming skills in SQL and R.
  • Proven experience with Real-World Data (RWD) programming.
  • Hands-on experience with healthcare claims data.
  • Familiarity with EMR data.

Responsibilities

  • Program and manage healthcare datasets, including claims and EMR data.
  • Clean, transform, and normalize data prior to analysis.
  • Translate raw data into analysis-ready datasets.
  • Create and maintain data dictionaries and programming documentation.
  • Support internal research teams with analytical and programming assistance.
  • Contribute to broader analytics initiatives as needed.

Benefits

  • Various annual leave entitlements.
  • A range of health insurance options for you and your family.
  • Competitive retirement planning offerings.
  • Access to a Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, for well-being support.
  • Flexible country-specific optional benefits like childcare vouchers and gym memberships.
Full Job Description
Real World Data Programmer

We are seeking a remote Real-World Data (RWD) Programmer / Data Analyst for our LVA research and evidence capabilities team with strong healthcare data experience to support internal research initiatives. This role is programming-focused and requires hands-on experience working with healthcare claims data and EMR data.

The ideal candidate is a data programmer, not a biostatistician or data scientist, with deep experience preparing and programming real-world datasets for research use.

What You Will Do:

You will provide programming, and analytics support for real world evidence generation including analytics, research, dashboard creation etc. While project scope is still evolving, expected responsibilities include:

  • Programming and managing real-world healthcare datasets, including:
    • Healthcare claims data
    • EMR data
  • Performing data cleaning, transformation, and normalization prior to analysis
  • Translating raw data into analysis-ready datasets
  • Creating and maintaining data dictionaries and programming documentation
  • Supporting internal research teams with hands-on analyst and programming support
  • Contributing to broader analytics efforts as needed


Your Profile:
  • Advanced degree, PhD, in quantitative field with 3+ years of experience (e.g. statistics, epidemiology, public health) or a Master's degree in analytics related field with 7+ years of experience in real world data and real-world evidence generation
  • Strong programming experience (SQL and R)
  • Direct experience programming Real-World Data (RWD)
  • Hands-on experience with healthcare claims data
  • Experience working with EMR data


What ICON can offer you: Our success depends on the quality of our people. That's why we've made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:
  • Various annual leave entitlements
  • A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family's needs.
  • Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
  • Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family's well-being.
  • Life assurance
  • Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.


Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless - there's every chance you're exactly what we're looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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About ICON plc

ICON plc is a global provider of drug development and commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development. ICON has approximately 15700 employees in 40 countries. The company was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990 and is headquartered in Leopardstown, Dublin. ICON has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1998.
Learn more about ICON plc
Size
39,300 employees
Market Cap
$16.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$332.3 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+26.9%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
NASDAQ

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