Senior Clinical Programmer I (Python)

AstraZeneca•Durham, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Clinical Programmer I is primarily responsible for activities related to programming, dashboard development and validation of data cleaning and review listings and sophisticated programs for ongoing clinical studies. This position requires high technical skills and adequate industry knowledge to independently perform programming tasks while using judgement about seeking mentorship in complex situations. Senior Clinical Programmer will contribute to multi-functional initiatives with High complexity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a professional environment.
Accomplished programming skills in Python/SAS/R/SQL/ SQL/Power BI/ SpotFire or other dashboard technologies.
Intermediate knowledge of clinical development process.
Good knowledge of industry standards.
Ability to influence relevant partners.
Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, writing, communication skills, and ability to work within a multi-functional team.
Ability to work in a distributed team environment.
Technical expertise with data capture, data models, data mining, and visualization techniques.
Prior Experience and understanding of EDC systems like Medidata Rave / Inform / Veeva and Data Platforms like Saama/ Entimice, SAS LSAF etc.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent in computer science, life science or statistics.
Excellent collaborative skills and the ability to manage complexity and change in a dynamic environment.
Broad knowledge of FDA regulations and GCP/ICH guidelines as related to clinical programming processes.
Experience in producing analytical dashboards with Power BI, Spotfire or other Business Intelligence tools.
Knowledge on MicroStrategy.

Responsibilities

Design, development, implementation, and validation of sophisticated programs built in Python/SAS/R or dashboard applications such as PowerBI/Spotfire.
Works towards the design, development, implementation, and validation of PowerBI dashboard applications.
Programs independently with efficiency and quality to process, analyse and report clinical trial data ready for review by clinical study teams.
Contribute to design, develop and implement High complex projects or initiatives that are part of clinical programming roadmap.
Contribute to defining and building vital processes and tools to perform clinical programming activities for both global and study level analytical solutions.
Contributes to development of guidelines that enhances quality, efficiency, timelines and effectiveness within the function.
Provide technical expertise, cross training and support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users.
Lead all aspects of completion of documentation associated with programming tasks to ensure activities and processes performed are conducted per standard operating procedures, guidelines and protocols.
Ensures high quality is built into own work and quality delivered by other programmers.
Identifies and communicates risk within assigned studies and/or projects.
Collaborates with various teams including data management, development operations, clinical, biometrics and other relevant multi-functional teams supporting clinical trials to deliver end user reporting needs.
Develop and maintain data visualization tools including requirements gathering, data provisioning and building dashboards as needed.
Create and maintain catalogue of reports to aid data cleaning and reporting activities.
Oversee completion of documentation associated with programming tasks to ensure activities and processes performed are conducted per standard operating procedures, guidelines and protocols.