Principal Statistical Programmer

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Your Mission: Reporting to the Manager, Statistical Programming, you will

• Provide support for the industrialized standardization of historical clinical trial data using industry standards (e.g., SDTM, ADaM) and related processes.

• Work collaboratively with all the team leads you will provide high-quality, regulatory-compliant standardized data to improve clinical trials.

• Lead the analysis datasets development and also support the standardization of EDC data. ​ 

Your Competencies:

• Be the ADaM expert, supporting SDTM and ADaM programming to create pooled analysis datasets for regulatory submission.

• Work with biostatisticians and data analysts to understand the dataset requirements; document and program to create the analysis datasets. Coordinate with vendors for ADaM development and oversee their deliverables

• Perform ad hoc queries on raw and standardized data for selected baseline characteristics and summarize the results for statisticians, data engineers and project managers.

• Research clinical trials in clinicaltrials.gov, Trialtrove, PubMed and other references to explore study characteristics

• Help to improve the data standardization process with the automations and implementation of algorithms

• Assist junior team members on ADaM development related activities and deliveries

Your Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in life science or a quantitative discipline required.

• 7+ years experience working with EDC data from variety of clinical trials across sponsors including hands-on work in and in-depth knowledge of all of the following: 

  • Write/review ADaM specifications and programming/validate including efficacy domains

  • Analyze subject-level clinical trials data Program and validate SDTM datasets

  • Read protocols, SAP, explore clinical datasets and make judgments about meaning and patterns in the data.

• Advanced skills in SAS base, macros and SQL required

• Programming knowledge in R or similar language is plus.

• Preferred  experience in oncology trials or pooled clinical trials data and Integrated analysis (ISS and ISE)

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