Senior Clinical SAS Programmer

South San Francisco  ‐ Onsite
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Senior Clinical SAS Programmer

A pharmaceutical company in the South San Francisco area is looking for a Senior Clinical SAS Programmer to join their team.

The special skills critical to the job are:
  • An ability and willingness to gain in-depth knowledge of assigned studies' protocols, CRFs, clinical and external data structure and content, study timelines and key milestones
  • Awareness of Clinical Programming activities needed to support study conduct
  • Point person for all study team or management queries about Clinical Programming activities for assigned studies
  • Proactively ensure all data transfers are scheduled and multiple data sources coordinated if necessary to support the reporting needs of assigned studies.
  • Ensure specifications are in place for all data transfers, verification of data against data transfer specs, reconciliation of external data with clinical data, clinical data review deliverables, including patient profiles and BOXI reports, and study metrics deliverables:
  • Review routine specifications drafted by support programmers or study team members, revise if needed with input from team
  • Gather requirements from study team and write complex specifications for metrics or reports for assigned studies
  • Ensure end users have sufficient detail (QC listings, support data presentation) in addition to the formal deliverables to evaluate them for approval
  • Manage the Clinical Programming queue of work from request to release:

The qualities required of the candidates are:
  • Bachelor in Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Life Sciences with a minimum of 5 - 8 years of clinical or statistical (SAS) programming experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, or MA/MS with 4 years of experience (less needed for junior candidates)
  • Proven Clinical (SAS) Programmer experience in a pharmaceutical or CRO working in a FDA regulated environment
  • Excellent verbal/written and interpersonal skills required for working successfully in a cross-functional team environment; communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in face-to-face conversation, by telephone, and by email.
  • Ability to translate requirements expressed in non-technical language into technical specifications or programming instructions
  • Oncology experience preferred;
  • Experience in EDC systems, data management preferred
  • BOXI a plus
  • Excel graph skills a plus
  • SAS Certification (BASE or ADVANCED) a plus


If you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please reply to this job posting as soon as possible.

To find out more about Real please visit www.realstaffing.com
Start date
02/2014
Duration
6 months - 1 yr
From
Real Staffing
Published at
18.02.2014
Project ID:
664985
Contract type
Freelance
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