Senior Programmer Analyst (Bioinformatics)

Job ID: 146838
Job date: 2018-06-11
End Date: 2018-08-10

Company : PPD 

Country : United States 

Role : Programmer 


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Job Description:
Perform advanced bioinformatics programming activities for the statistical and computational consideration 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 in programming lead role on complex studies, representing the Biostatistics department within the company or client. Confer with departments, such as Data Management, Clinical Team Management, Project Management, Commercial Finance, or Biostatistics, to coordinate project development and improvement. Provide input to the bidding process. 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 and oversee the work of other programmers on the team. Assume leadership responsibility as a contributing member of a multi-disciplinary clinical trials project team. Supervise, train, and mentor other programmers. Participate in developing SOPs and working practice documents.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree in scientific, technical, or quantitative field and three (3) years of experience as a Statistical Programmer/Analyst or related role. A Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, technical, or quantitative field and 5 years of experience as a Statistical Programmer/Analyst or related role will be accepted in lieu of a Master’s degree and three (3) years of experience. Experience must include: SAS programming - 3 years; Data set structures and working with complex data systems - 3 years; Windows office applications - 3 years; SAS Macro - 3 years; Clinical research and trials - 3 years; Quality control support - 3 years; Project management - 1 year; and FDA, CDISC, ADaM, and SDTM standards - 1 year


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Additional Info:
Company Name: PPD Development, L.P.

Position Title: Senior Programmer Analyst (Bioinformatics)

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: 7551 Metro Center Drive, Austin, Texas 78744

Organization - Biostatistics

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

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