Job Title: Senior Clinical Programmer
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Position Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: United Kingdom (Home-Based)
In this role, you will be responsible for the timely and high-quality delivery of clinical data transformations, data reports/visualisations, and datasets from multiple sources to support ongoing data review for both internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
* Take full ownership of timelines and quality for assigned studies, flagging potential problems to appropriate team leads and project managers.
* Attend sponsor meetings, kick-off meetings, and audits, providing input from a clinical programming perspective.
* Support the review and update of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and process improvement initiatives.
* Assist in the development of training, coaching, and mentoring for team members.
* Serve as the main point of contact for internal and external customers regarding clinical programming tasks and issues.
* Develop specification documents and other supportive study documentation.
* Manage the extraction of data from databases, creating programs to manipulate data into the company’s standard structures.
* Program validation checks, reports/visualisations, and listings to support clinical data management and review.
* Load electronic third-party data.
* Provide solutions to data issues during the conduct and analysis of studies.
* Perform other relevant tasks as assigned with appropriate training.
Skills Required:
* Minimum of A levels (or equivalent).
* Previous experience in clinical data programming within the pharmaceutical industry or a clinical research organisation.
* Ability to understand clinical data structures and present data for data management/clinical review according to user requirements.
* Experience with SAS Macros and/or similar scripting languages.
* Experience in debugging SAS programs and/or similar scripting languages.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in fluent English.
* Strong organisational and time management skills.
* Excellent attention to detail, flexibility, and motivation.
Desirable Skills:
* A degree or equivalent in a science or maths-related subject.
* Experience with Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
* Experience working on oncology and rare disease clinical trials.
* Experience in coaching and mentoring others.
* Understanding of clinical trial budgets.
* Experience in identifying and tracking out-of-scope activities.
* Experience in sponsor meetings, including kick-offs and audits.
* Ability to support process improvement initiatives.
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.