Senior Clinical Programmer

GlaxoSmithKline; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Mar 27 2025

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

GSK Clinical Programming brings together some of the most talented minds to engage in advanced data analytics, principles of data science, and developing new computational tools to support innovative research and develop novel therapies. We serve five key therapeutic areas: HIV, Immunology, Infections Disease, Oncology, Respiratory, and Vaccines, and offer unlimited growth opportunities and exciting career paths for a wide range of experience levels.

Your Role

The Senior Clinical Programmer role supports all aspects of programming activities and engages in study lead activities under supervision. Senior programmers are expected to be subject matter experts and be able to mentor and train junior team members and new hires. They are technically strong, possess good communication and time management skills, are problem solvers, be able to engage in study lead responsibilities, and are willing to mentor junior programmers and new hires.

Senior Programmers at GSK will support the planning and execution of the programming activities for GSK clinical trials. They will be accountable for creating, verifying, and documenting analyses of clinical data while adhering to study protocols, analysis plans and GSK / industry standards. They will also be able to lead certain aspects of a study under supervision. Senior Programmers will be expected to participate in capabilities and non-project initiatives, present at internal forums, and learn new programming languages. They will also interact with non-programming team members and participate in core study team meetings under supervision.

In this role you will

• Demonstrate proficiency in developing, QCing, and debugging complex code and macros with minimal supervision
• Identifie gaps in current programming best practices and offer suggestions
• Understand the management of programs, including change control, and their importance
• Ensure adherence to standards and has an awareness of evolving standards, both internal and external
• Keep an awareness of departmental strategies and initiatives
• Provide input to strategic planning, where requested and under supervision, which may be shared with stakeholders
• Anticipate problems related to assigned work or areas of expertise and able to implement solutions, proactively seeking input from colleagues as needed
• Provide innovative solutions to solve more complex problems relating to own work
• Contribute changes to programming best practices.
• Apply standard processes to tasks, ensuring that deliverables are accurate, high quality and met according to agreed timelines
• Understand GxP, ICH requirements, internal processes and external regulations that govern drug development (where applicable)
• Quickly understand and implement internal processes and standards in assigned work
• Perform Quality Control (QC) of other people’s work (under supervision)
• Perform required archiving activities and understands the implications of accurate and timely documentation
• Anticipate compliance, quality or governance issues and proposes solutions to achieve resolution
• Demonstrate effectiveness in oral and written communications, ability to express ideas, and incorporate feedback to produce quality deliverables
• Inform supervisor and matrix leaders of appropriate progress and activities
• Be able to explain technical approaches to peers and non-technical colleagues/settings
• Deliver presentations with clarity in internal forums and/or external professional industry meetings
• Use networking skills to collaborate with peers or non-programming stakeholders

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• A BSC or BA (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related subject
• Experience or knowledge with using one or more programming languages, such as R, Python, Spotfire, S-Plus, and/or SAS
• Intermediate to advanced programing skills in one or more programming languages, such as R, Python, and/or SAS
• Familiarity with CDISC standards and its application
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office software (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience with submission activities is preferred
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of the end-to-end clinical trial process
• Strong understanding of the purpose and application of key clinical documents
• Effective written, verbal communication skills
• Basic experience with representing programming function in cross-functional meetings, initiatives, and working groups.
• Some experience with training and mentoring junior programmers
• Therapeutic area expertise – Oncology preferred

Closing Date for Applications: Thursday 17th of April 2025 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.