Senior Clinical Programmer - REMOTE Scotland

Senior Clinical Programmer - REMOTE Scotland

Job Title: Senior Clinical Programmer

Position Type: Permanent Full-Time

Location: United Kingdom (Home-Based)

In this role, you will be responsible for the timely and high-quality delivery of clinical data transformations, data reports/visualisations, and datasets from multiple sources to support ongoing data review for both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of timelines and quality for assigned studies, flagging potential problems to appropriate team leads and project managers.
• Attend sponsor meetings, kick-off meetings, and audits, providing input from a clinical programming perspective.
• Support the review and update of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and process improvement initiatives.
• Assist in the development of training, coaching, and mentoring for team members.
• Serve as the main point of contact for internal and external customers regarding clinical programming tasks and issues.
• Develop specification documents and other supportive study documentation.
• Manage the extraction of data from databases, creating programs to manipulate data into the company’s standard structures.
• Program validation checks, reports/visualisations, and listings to support clinical data management and review.
• Load electronic third-party data.
• Provide solutions to data issues during the conduct and analysis of studies.
• Perform other relevant tasks as assigned with appropriate training.

Skills Required:

• Minimum of A levels (or equivalent).
• Previous experience in clinical data programming within the pharmaceutical industry or a clinical research organisation.
• Ability to understand clinical data structures and present data for data management/clinical review according to user requirements.
• Experience with SAS Macros and/or similar scripting languages.
• Experience in debugging SAS programs and/or similar scripting languages.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in fluent English.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, flexibility, and motivation.
• A degree or equivalent in a science or maths-related subject.
• Experience with Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
• Experience working on oncology and rare disease clinical trials.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring others.
• Understanding of clinical trial budgets.
• Experience in identifying and tracking out-of-scope activities.
• Experience in sponsor meetings, including kick-offs and audits.
• Ability to support process improvement initiatives.

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Health Care Provider

Industries: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing