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
Are you passionate about transforming complex clinical data into meaningful insights? Looking to work in a modern tech stack and data pipeline? Join our team as a Clinical Python Developer and play a critical role in driving data-driven decision-making across clinical trials through advanced analytics and visualization solutions.
This is your opportunity to make a real impact at the intersection of clinical research, data science, and visualization excellence.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Be responsible for delivery in a continuous improvement framework with respect to systems deployment, life cycle management and enhancements supported user groups.
- Contribute to initiatives to yield faster and more effective report development, efficient change management services for analytics platforms.
- Use your technical expertise with clinical data and report building, and experience gained through working with diverse and complex business processes and associated system infrastructures.
- Work in a matrix environment across functions and departments.
Your Profile:
- 4+ years’ experience as a Python Programmer / Visualisation Developer / Business Analyst utilising data warehouse pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python (and relevant libraries/packages) for data transformations and manipulations
o Pyspark experience preferred.
o Pandas experienced also considered. - Exposure to and understanding of CDSIC guided data structures within a regulated clinical trial environment
o Mapping experience and domain specific therapeutic area knowledge preferred. - Solid development skills within Tibco Spotfire or equivalent data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik etc.)
- Databricks experience preferred.
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:
Various annual leave entitlements
A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
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.
Life assurance
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.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, 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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Skills Required
- More than 4 years experience as a Business Analyst in Data Warehouse platforms
- In-depth knowledge of Tibco Spotfire or equivalent visualization tool
- In-depth knowledge of Python, R, SAS
- Knowledge of SDTM data structure
- Ability to gather requirements and write user requirement documentation
- Ability to work independently on complex assignments
ICON plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ICON plc and has not been reviewed or approved by ICON plc.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive, with medical coverage and wellness initiatives highlighted. Larger sites are also associated with added wellness supports such as onsite fitness options and access to an employee assistance program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off and flexibility provisions are positioned as a meaningful part of the total package, including vacation/annual leave and flexible work scheduling. Flexibility is sometimes cited as helping offset long hours in certain roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and savings support is presented as a core component of the benefits package, including offerings such as pension arrangements in some locations and a U.S. 401(k) plan with company match. Financial planning resources are also emphasized as part of broader security benefits.
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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.
