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Sr. Statistical Programmer (Sponsor dedicated)

Syneos Health BRA-Remote Remote senior full-time

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Description

We are seeking a Sr. Statistical Programmer (Sponsor dedicated) to join our team.

Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success.

Job Responsibilities

  • Uses SAS or other software to develop custom programming code to generate summary tables, data listings, graphs and derived datasets as specified in the statistical analysis plan and programming specifications.
  • Works to ensure that outputs meet quality standards and project requirements.
  • Maintains well organized, complete, and up-to-date project documentation, testing, and verification/quality control documents and programs ensuring inspection readiness.
  • Manages scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects at a time, sets goals based on priorities from management, and adapts to timeline or priority changes by reorganizing daily workload.
  • Prepares in advance for internal meetings, contributes ideas, and demonstrates respect for opinions of others.
  • Acts as the lead statistical programmer.
  • Participates in sponsor meetings, kickoff meetings, and bid defense meetings as statistical programming representative, as required by sponsor.
  • Conducts effective internal meetings.
  • Displays willingness to work with others and assist with projects and initiatives as necessary to meet the needs of the business.

R programming for clinical trials

  • Hands-on experience using R in clinical trial programming, including tidyverse packages (dplyr, tidyr, purrr, stringr, lubridate) for data manipulation, and familiarity with reproducible workflows in RStudio/Posit, Quarto/R Markdown and Git-based version control.

Pharmaverse and CDISC tools

  • Working knowledge of pharmaverse packages, including admiral (ADaM derivations), submission-ready datasets and cards/cardx (Analysis Results Data, ARD).
  • Experience with table, listing and figure tools such as gtsummary, rtables or Tplyr.

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree, preferably in a scientific or statistical discipline; in lieu of degree, an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated programming experience.
  • Extensive programming experience in SAS or other required software, preferably in a clinical trial environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.

Benefits

  • Career development and progression
  • Supportive and engaged line management
  • Technical and therapeutic area training
  • Peer recognition and total rewards program
  • Inclusive culture

Skills

Required

  • SAS
  • R
  • clinical trials
  • tidyverse
  • pharmaverse
  • CDISC
  • gtsummary
  • rtables
  • Tplyr
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