Principal Programmer

Highly Competitive
  1. Permanent
  2. Programming
  3. United Kingdom
London, England
Posting date: 20 Jun 2021
38326

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A specialist contract research organisation (CRO) is looking for a Principal Programmer is to provide programming support to the statistics and programming department across a range of projects, clients and therapeutic areas. The Principal Programmer may also perform a supervisory role (e.g. line management and/or project management).

Job Responsibilities

  • Perform review of clinical trial documents including protocols, SAPs, CRFs, CSRs.
  • Author, review and approve study TFL shells and dataset specifications.
  • Author, validate and document SAS programs for datasets, TFLs and macros, applying good programming practice.
  • Identify data issues and outliers.
  • Complete, review and approve CDISC Validation tool reports.
  • Identify data and standards issues and resolve or escalate as appropriate.
  • Awareness of emerging standards and associated impact to ongoing and future planned trials.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring of staff to achieve "excellence". Direct employee career development and ensure line reports receive appropriate training to perform their day-to-day jobs.
  • Lead internal and client study, project and cross functional team meetings effectively.
  • Present study updates internally and at client meetings.
  • Share scientific, technical and practical knowledge within the team and with colleagues.
  • Perform work in full compliance with applicable internal and client policies, procedures, processes and training.
  • Build effective collaborative working relationships with internal and client team members.

Skills and Requirements

  • BSc, MSc or PhD in numerical discipline (or relevant equivalent industry experience).
  • At least 6 years of relevant industry experience.
  • Understanding of clinical drug development process, relevant disease areas, endpoints and study designs.
  • Awareness of industry and project standards & ICH guidelines.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Self-management skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverables.
  • Demonstrated problem solving ability and attention to detail.

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