# Senior Clinical Data Scientist – R Shiny

**Company**: ICON Strategic Solutions
**Location**: Johannesburg
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Senior Clinical Data Scientist at ICON, you will analyse clinical trial data and support the statistical analysis process to ensure high-quality results.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to transform complex clinical and real-world data into intuitive applications and analytical solutions that help answer meaningful clinical questions and support evidence-based decision-making.

**What You Will Do:**

- Design and develop engaging R Shiny applications, dashboards and visualisations to support clinical study monitoring, data review, safety analysis and evidence generation.

- Use R and advanced statistical techniques to transform complex clinical and real-world datasets into meaningful and accessible insights.

- Build scalable, modular and well-documented solutions, while continuously improving performance, usability and user experience.

- Partner with cross-functional colleagues to ensure solutions follow relevant CDISC standards, regulatory requirements and internal quality standards.

- Share your expertise in R and R Shiny, contribute to best practices and automation initiatives, and support the development of colleagues across the team.

**Your Profile:**

- Around 5+ years of relevant experience in statistical programming, clinical data analysis, Real World Evidence/HTA, Medical Affairs or evidence generation, ideally within a pharmaceutical, biotech or CRO environment.

- Strong hands-on experience with R and R Shiny, including application development, interactive dashboards, visualisation and tools such as ggplot2 or Plotly.

- Good knowledge of the broader R ecosystem, which may include R packages, Git, CRAN, data wrangling and statistical methodologies.

- Experience working with clinical or healthcare data. Knowledge of CDISC standards such as SDTM and ADaM, TLFs, or Phase IIIb/IV clinical trials would be particularly valuable.

- A degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Life Sciences or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. Knowledge of Python, SAS, cloud technologies, Posit Connect/Shiny Server or Real World Data is welcome but not essential.

**Rewards & Benefits**

- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- R
- R Shiny
- statistical programming
- clinical data analysis
- CDISC standards

### Nice to have
- Python
- SAS
- cloud technologies
- Posit Connect/Shiny Server
- Real World Data

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