# Principal Biostatistician/ Sr Biostatistician (R/Rshiny - EMEA BASED)

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: GBR-Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Biostatistician/Sr Biostatistician to leverage interactive R applications to explore, analyze, and communicate insights from clinical trial data.

The successful candidate will work closely with statisticians, clinicians, and R application developers to identify meaningful analytical questions, prepare clinical datasets, generate interactive visualizations, and drive improvements to the DIG analytical platform.

Key Responsibilities:

- Perform exploratory analyses of clinical trial data using interactive R/Shiny applications.

- Prepare, integrate, and quality-check clinical datasets for downstream exploratory analyses.

- Identify trends, safety signals, efficacy patterns, subgroup differences, and data quality issues through interactive visualization.

- Lead data review sessions and exploratory analysis meetings using interactive visualizations to communicate findings and facilitate scientific discussions.

- Translate complex statistical results into clear visual narratives that support clinical decision making.

- Collaborate with clinicians, statisticians, programmers, and R application developers to define analytical requirements and prioritize new application features.

- Develop reproducible analytical workflows and reports using modern R tools.

- Contribute enhancements, bug reports, and feature requests to continuously improve the application ecosystem.

- Train and support users of internally developed analytical applications.

- Stay current with emerging analytical methodologies and visualization techniques within the R ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Previous experience using R for statistical analysis and data visualization, including experience with Shiny applications.

- MS or PhD in Biostatistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline, with experience supporting clinical development within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or CRO industry.

- Strong understanding of clinical trial design, statistical methodology, and clinical data standards.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex statistical concepts to multidisciplinary audiences.

- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to thrive in a Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) environment.

- Fluency in English.

Technical Skills:

- Strong understanding of SDTM and ADaM datasets.

- Experience conducting exploratory analyses of efficacy and safety data.

- Knowledge of statistical methodology used throughout clinical development.

- Experience interpreting and communicating statistical findings.

- Demonstrated experience with advanced R programming, data manipulation and transformation, reproducible analytical workflows, and experience with packages such as shiny, plotly, ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purr, gt, gtsummary, reactable.

- Experience creating and presenting interactive visualizations using shiny, plotly, ggplot2, and/or other visualization packages.

- Ability to effectively communicate clinical findings through interactive graphics and dashboards.

- Experience with Quarto or RMarkdown, Git and GitHub, reproducible reporting, quality control of analytical datasets, and collaborative analytical workflows.

## Skills

### Required
- R
- RShiny
- Biostatistics
- Statistics
- Data Science
- Clinical Trials
- Data Visualization
- Statistical Analysis
- Communication
- Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Posit Connect
- R package development
- SQL
- Arrow or DuckDB
- AI-assisted analytical workflows
- Machine learning methods for exploratory analyses
- Clinical dashboards and interactive reporting
- User training and scientific presentations
- Familiarity with software development workflows and contributing feature requests to application development teams

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