Senior Biostatistician I - India, Bangalore
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re 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
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.
With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.
Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.
Senior Statistical Programmer
Location: Chennai / Bangalore or Trivandrum or Home based.
Summary:
As a Senior Statistical Programmer, you will provide programming expertise to develop and maintain programs to meet internal and external clients’ needs. Provide and assist in leading the development of project-related solutions to a wide range of statistical programming tasks, keen to be part of for the Top notch Pharmaceutical client.
What you do?
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Lead and execute programming deliverables on one high-complexity programming project or at least two moderate complexity studies.
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Lead and manage the assigned programming team’s deliverables at the study and program level to ensure project objectives are met within the agreed timelines and to the highest standard of quality.
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Create and Validate Safety and Efficacy Analysis Datasets in adherence with CDISC and client specific standards and maintain quality and accuracy.
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Create and Validate Safety and Efficacy Tables, Listings and Figures with high quality and accuracy.
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Create Study specific or general macros and finalize programming specifications/mock-ups.
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Adhere to programming specifications and study specific requirements, including completion and filing of required documentation.
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Plan and organize workload to ensure effective time management and adherence to project specific timelines.
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Proactively communicate and work effectively with the biostatistics team including remote teams and with senior programming, management and sponsor personnel to achieve study goals.
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Strong working knowledge of statistical concepts and its application in SAS.
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Demonstrate a constructive and flexible approach to project delivery, including problem solving, handling changing priorities and meeting study timelines.
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Learn, share and apply new techniques and technologies to increase efficiency and to implement industry trend solutions (e.g., SDTM, ADaM).
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Strong working knowledge of data structures (e.g., CDISC SDTM, ADaM), software development lifecycle and their implementation.
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Strong knowledge of the development, debug and use of standard programs and macros.
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Plan, organize and prioritize workload to ensure effective time management and adherence to project specific timelines.
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Participate in the review and approval of programming procedures and techniques.
What you need?
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Minimum Life Science/Pharma/Statistics /Software Engineering related degree or equivalent with 6+ years’ work experience in a SDTM, ADAM & TLF programming.
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Create and Validate Safety and Efficacy Tables, Listings and Figures with high quality and accuracy.
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Experience in creation of ADaM Datasets for Safety and efficacy domains.
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Very strong SAS programming skills required in SAS/Base, PROC SQL,SAS/Stat, SAS Macros and SAS/Graph (Base and Advance SAS).
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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
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Various annual leave entitlements
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A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
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Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
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Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
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Life assurance
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Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here.
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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What We Do
Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. We do this by delivering best in class information, solutions and performance, with an unyielding focus on quality at all times.
We offer a full range of consulting, development and commercialisation services from a global network of offices in 53 countries. We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost, and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.
