Statistical Programmer II

Katalyst HealthCares and Life Sciences

$80K — $110K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Biostatistics, Data Science, or relevant field with 3-4 years of experience, Master's with 6-7 years, or Bachelor's with 7-8 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong analytical thinker with excellent communication skills and experience with real-world data.
  • Proficient R programmer, including tidyverse, and experienced with Git in collaborative environments.
  • Solid skills in generating Tables, Listings, and Graphs using R packages.
  • Familiarity with ICH guidelines and FDA/EMA regulatory standards in programming.
  • Extensive experience working with large healthcare datasets, including claims and electronic health records.
  • Leadership experience in team settings, either in management or project lead roles.
  • Knowledge of CDISC conventions and some experience with SDTM and ADaM models.

Responsibilities

  • Provide tailored real-world data solutions for life sciences research.
  • Translate analytic specifications into R code for dataset creation and statistical analysis.
  • Act as a subject matter expert on various data types including EHR and clinico-genomics data.
  • Apply knowledge of cancer biology and epidemiology to develop analytic code.
  • Mentor junior statistical programming staff and foster their development.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver client research studies effectively.
  • Contribute to the enhancement of analytical tools and processes within the organization.
  • Ensure output quality by providing expert feedback on statistical analysis plans.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Access to cutting-edge research and innovative data solutions.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Impactful role contributing to advancements in life sciences.
  • Work on meaningful projects that influence patient outcomes.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
  • Team provides customized real-world data and real-world evidence solutions to address the most important research questions across clinical development, market access, and commercial use cases for our life sciences partners
  • Independently translate analytic specifications from a statistical analysis plan into R code to create analytic datasets, generating descriptive and inferential statistics, data visualizations, often involving Client variables or complex statistical methods, in consultation with the study principal investigator
  • Serve as subject matter expert on appropriate use cases for, and nuances of, the variety of different Flatiron data modalities, including EHR-derived real-world data, clinico-genomics data, ML-extracted data, and claims data
  • Develop a proficient understanding of cancer biology, therapy, and/or epidemiology across multiple major tumor types and appropriately apply this understanding when crafting analytic code
  • Provide mentorship and support to more junior statistical programming staff
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across our medical and scientific organization to execute and deliver on client-sponsored research studies in an accurate, effective, and timely manner
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of Flatiron's proprietary analytical tooling and templates, at times acting as liaison to the relevant teams and stakeholders
  • Continue to develop a deeper understanding of real-world data and related methodologies used to generate real-world evidence
  • Work closely with Epidemiology and Biostatistics to assure output quality by providing expert feedback on SAP, Analytic/TLF specifications from functional perspectivly
Requirements:
  • Doctorate degree (e.g., PhD, ScD, DrPH) in Biostatistics/Statistics, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Public Health, Math, or a closely related field with 3-4 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6-7 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree with 7-8 years of relevant experience
  • In addition, you're an analytical thinker and excellent communicator with experience analyzing real-world data (e.g., healthcare claims or electronic health records)
  • Excellent programmer in R (including tidyverse) and are proficient working in Git-based environments (e.g., Github, Gitlab)
  • Solid experience in creating Tables, Listings, and Graphs using R packages
  • Create/review programming documents (e.g., programming plan, specification for datasets and output template)
  • Knowledge of ICH guidelines, FDA / EMA / other regulatory authority guidance from a programming standpoint
  • Extensive experience with large healthcare-related datasets (e.g., administrative claims, electronic medical records, genomics)
  • Experience leading teams, either as a manager or project/team lead
  • Familiar with CDISC conventions, i.e. SDTM and ADaM models (using SAS) and related controlled terminologies, and knowledge or some experience using these models

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