Senior Principal Statistical Programmer

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. Were proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

What you will be doing:

• Develop, review, document and perform validation of SAS programs and macros.
• Support the development of data repositories, pooling multiple studies.
• Create standard reports in different output formats.
• Automate programming tasks within the SAS environment.
• Generate programmed QC checks.
• Build utilities in support of other programming tasks.
• Design new tools or review existing tools and improve where needed.
• Develop, validate and document programs for ad-hoc analyses.
• Assess the time needed to develop programs and can at least partially self-manage the work.
• Take responsibility to deliver a support in time in function of stakeholders needs.
• Guide and mentor junior team members.
• Act as a superuser, providing day-to-day support to end-users of our Statistical Computing Environment and our analysis and reporting standards.
• Ensure end-user training and assist with IT-related tasks, such as system upgrades.
• Support technical implementation and adoption of clinical data standards.
• Identifying and addressing the needs of different stakeholders, including Data Management, Statistical Programming, Biostatistics and Medical Writing - providing input for prioritisation.

You have:

• Bachelors or higher degree in Science, Statistics, Information Technology, Mathematics or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience desired.
• Strong knowledge of CDISC standards and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of SAS programming is a must.
• Proficiency in R (package management/validation/development, R Consortium/Pharmaverse)
• Experience in analysing programming issues and providing effective solutions.
• Experience with developing clinical data standards, including SDTM, ADaM and TFL standards creation and processes for quality control of data packages.
• Passionate about programming. Always looking for better solutions, but has a critical view for not overengineering software.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership in development of general purpose tools.
• Creativity, brings ideas to the table and can perform well when given creative freedom.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Knowledge of and experience with CDISC standards is desired.
• Knowledge of ICH-GCP and other applicable legislation, with good understanding of clinical data and pharmaceutical development.

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