Sr Programmer Analyst

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, youâll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on â now and in the future.

Summarized Purpose:

Performs sophisticated bioinformatics programming activities for the statistical and computational considerations of research projects in the Clinical Pharmacology department. Works independently in a lead programmer role on select moderately sophisticated studies, or may serve as a study team member under the direction of a lead programmer on more sophisticated studies. Provides training and guidance to junior team members.

Key responsibilities:

• Acts as the lead programmer or project lead on Clinical Pharmacology studies of significant complexity, working directly with project team leaders and client representatives to conduct team meetings, develop and maintain project timelines, assess and forecast resources, and monitor study budgets.

• Assumes leadership responsibility as a contributing member of a multidisciplinary project team, communicating actively and frequently with other team members and ensuring adherence to working practice documents and SOPs.

• Independently creates, implements, maintains, and validates SAS programs that transfer data across multiple data management systems or operating systems, combines data from a variety of sources and structures, generates and stores summary data from a variety of sources, generates reports or combines multiple databases and validates programs that generate listings, tables and figures using SAS.

• Manages and documents assignments to meet timelines and deliver high quality work, being familiar with any relevant contractual obligations or limits.

• Increases knowledge base and professional skills in areas including programming, technology and techniques, clinical trials, and the pharmaceutical industry.

•  Provides training, guidance, and project leadership to junior team members.

• Provides general infrastructure support to the Department, including representing the company at industry conferences, presenting/teaching at department meetings, assisting in establishing training materials, and contributing to other general department documents or policies such as the development of departmental working practice documents and SOPs

Education and Experience:

MS/MA degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field and at least 4 years of experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job requirements, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification, and at least 6 years of experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job requirements. Programming experiences for the studies in Clinical Pharmacology preferred. Good knowledge and background in statistics preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• In-depth understanding and expert level knowledge of SAS or more programming languages 

• Expert level knowledge and highly skillful hands-on experiences in SDTMS/ADaMs /TLFs specifications and programming

• Good Knowledge of Pinnacle 21as an validator and Define.xml generator

• Strong verbal and nonverbal communications skills to effectively interface with teams and clients, including proficiency in the English language

• Capable of independently and effectively organizing and managing multiple assignments with challenging timelines

• Capable of adapting and adjusting to changing priorities

• Capable of training and mentoring others

• Solid project management skills to act as project lead across the most challenging and complex projects

• Capable of effectively capturing biostatistical metrics

• Capable of providing quality control review for statistical programming and identifying solutions and process improvement

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status