Programmer Analyst (Bioinformatics)

Job ID: 145763
Job date: 2018-04-27
End Date: 2018-06-26

Company : PPD 

Country : United States 

Role : Programmer 


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Job Description:
PPD Development, L.P. is seeking a Programmer Analyst (Bioinformatics) in Austin, TX.

Job Duties:

Perform bioinformatics programming activities for the statistical and computational considerations of research projects including some or all of the following: creation and maintenance of programs used for data entry, data management, data validation, statistical report generation, and program validation. Prepare and analyze clinical trial patient datasets, such as laboratory data, vital signs data, tumor response data, imaging data, quality of life and well-being questionnaire data, or adverse events data, for clinical research purposes. Consult with researchers and multi-disciplinary project teams to analyze problems and recommend technology-based solutions and computational strategies. Develop the customized codes to utilize existing PPD standard tools and applications to provide the outputs for clinical bioinformatics or technical use. Create novel computational approaches, or dynamic programming as required by project plans. Assist Data Management and Biostatistics by recommending efficient optimal systems and processes to improve operations and process efficiencies. Act as a Lead Programmer on key deliverables within selected studies. Independently create, execute, maintain, and validate programs that transfer data across multiple data management systems or operating systems, combine data from a variety of sources and structures, generate and store summary data from a variety of sources, and generate reports or combine multiple databases. Independently create, execute, maintain, and validate programs that generate listings, tables, and figures using SAS. Serve as a project lead on key deliverables within a study and oversee the work of other programmers on the team. Provide general infrastructure support to the Biostatistics Department including presenting or teaching at Department meetings, contributing to other general department documents and policies, or assisting with Biostatistics web page content.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, technical, or quantitative field and two (2) years of experience in the position offered or as a Statistical Programmer/Analyst or related role. Employer will accept a Master’s degree in a scientific, technical, or quantitative field and six (6) months of experience in the position offered or as a Statistical Programmer/Analyst or related role in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years of experience. Must have 6 months of experience with each of the following skills: SAS programming; data set structures and working with complex data systems; Windows office applications; and SAS macro. Skills could be gained through successful completion of graduate-level coursework.


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Additional Info:
Organization - Biostatistics

Primary Location - North America-United States-Texas-Austin - Metro Center 300

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