The Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) at Fred Hutch is a full service statistical and data management center focused on HIV prevention research. SCHARP has an annual budget of over $40 million, more than 130 employees and is currently managing over 40 active phase I – III clinical trials in over 150 clinical sites around the world. SCHARP is seeking a Statistical Programmer III/IV to provide statistical programming expertise within SCHARP by coordinating with statisticians to write efficient, re-usable, and easily maintainable code that access, analyze and report data descriptives and analyses.

This position can be offered fully remote:

May include some or all of the following:

• Gather and document requirements for developing or modifying existing programs and systems.
• Define and edit mock tables, listings and figures (TLFs) and analysis dataset specifications.
• Generate, document, and maintain analysis datasets.
• Develop scripts for wrangling / data transformation.
• Create ad hoc, standard and study-specific reports (e.g. SMC, DSMB, SMB, Assay QC); may perform cross- study reporting.
• Test and de-bug programs and maintain version control on production programs and scripts.
• Design and develop new work instructions (WIs) and updates to existing WIs.
• May coordinate efforts to standardize WIs or processes across studies.
• Develop and maintain automation of routine analysis data and reporting tasks.
• Contribute to good programming practices, and cross-group programming initiatives and code libraries.
• Work with clinical programmers, lab programmers, statisticians, and other statistical programmers to resolve data quality, processing, and analysis issues.
• Contribute to mentoring and training of junior Statistical Programmers and may supervise as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Statistical Programmer III

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or directly related fields.
• 4 years of experience as SAS or R programmer on PC/Unix platform.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a matrix management environment as a member of several project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize work assignments.
• Knowledge of and experience with clinical trials research data or experience in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field.
• Knowledge of and experience with biostatistics or statistical analyses in a clinical trials setting.
• Advanced SAS or R programming skills.
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities.
• Knowledge of SAS or R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages.
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control.

Statistical Programmer IV

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or directly related fields.
• 5 years of experience in SAS or R programming, with additional experience in other programming languages including a scripting language; R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn).
• 4 years of experience in support of clinical trials, in a clinical research setting or other health research setting, or in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a matrix management environment as a member of several project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize work assignments.
• Knowledge of and experience with clinical trials research data.
• Knowledge of and experience with biostatistics or statistical analyses in a clinical trials setting.
• Knowledge of both SAS and R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages.
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities.
• Advanced SAS or advanced R programming skills.
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Statistical Programmer III

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a scientific, technical, or health-related field.
• Preferred experience programming in support of clinical trials, statistical programming in a clinical research setting or other health research programming support.
• R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn).
• Knowledge of CDISC standards (SDTM and ADaM).
• Experience using version control tools.

Statistical Programmer IV

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a scientific, technical, or health-related field.
• Knowledge of CDISC standards (SDTM and ADaM).

Statistical Programmer III: The annual base salary range for this position is from $99,486 to $157,227, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

Statistical Programmer IV: The annual base salary range for this position is from $109,699 to $173,347, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.Although Fred Hutch is not sponsoring most H-1B visas at this time, candidates who already hold an H-1B sponsored by another organization and are currently in the U.S. may be eligible for this position.Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).