Sr SAS Programmer

Precision for Medicine is the first global precision medicine clinical research services organization, purpose-built to improve the clinical research and development process for new therapeutics. Our novel approach integrates clinical operations excellence, with laboratory expertise, and advanced data sciences to inform every step. We apply our expertise to trials at all stages—from early development through approval—with embedded experience in oncology and rare disease. With over 2000 dedicated professionals and 35 offices worldwide, we stand ready to help accelerate life-changing treatments anywhere around the globe.  

Position Summary: 

• Are you interested in a unique and challenging role applying your SAS programming skills? We are looking to combine your SAS programming skills and ideas with our Data Manager expertise to produce the critical tools and outputs that make a clinical trial successful!  We understand the power of SAS in the day-to-day management of clinical trial data are and looking for programmers interested in non-SDTM and ADaM dataset and TLF programming to join our amazing team. 

• Focused on developing and maintaining SAS programming to support the review of clinical data as part of a cross-functional data review and cleaning approach
• This is not standard statistical programming including generation of SDTM and ADaM datasets and TLFs to support the formal analysis of clinical trial data

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:  

• Provides collaborative input and guidance to the design of SAS outputs to the client and internal teams to develop metrics, reconciliation reports, tools, listings and standard patient profiles

• May support the development of complex proprietary patient profiles designed to facilitate efficient holistic data review & centralized monitoring, aggregate data review workbooks, metrics, projections,  graphs and other data visualizations including the application of oncology disease assessment criteria, CTCAE criteria, etc.
• Ensures on-time delivery, communicates the status of projects to internal teams and study

• Develops, tests, and validates SAS programs to support client-related and cross-functional projects
• Troubleshoots and resolves SAS program issues
• Develops and maintains SAS programming validation documents
• Participate in conducting demonstrations and trainings
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and corresponding process documentation related to SAS programming activities
• May provide leadership for cross-functional and organization-wide initiatives, where applicable
• May train project team members
• Communicate with study sponsors, vendors and project teams as needed regarding data, database or other relevant project issues
• Present software demonstrations/trainings, department/company training sessions, present at project meetings
• May require some travel
• May perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications: 

Minimum Required: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in local country or equivalent level of experience

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in clinical, scientific or healthcare discipline

Other Required: 

• Broad knowledge of drug, device and/or biologic development and effective data management practices
• Base SAS®, SAS/STAT and SAS/ACCESS software
• SAS Macro Language
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Professional use of the English language; both written and oral
• Experience in utilizing various clinical database management systems (EDC)

Preferred: 

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming (C#, C++, VBS, etc.), scripting language (PERL, etc.), R, SQL
• Oncology and/or Orphan Drug therapeutic experience