Senior Clinical SAS Programmer
Summary
Senior Clinical SAS Programmer at clinical research firm Caidya (Clinipace), working remotely from India to support clinical trial data operations: programming data checks, reconciliation and special reports, merging external data with EDC data, automating outputs, and mentoring junior programmers. Core tooling is SAS (data step, PROC SQL, PROC REPORT, ODS) plus Excel and some UNIX/PowerShell.
Job Title: Senior Clinical SAS Programmer
Job Location: India (Remote)
Job Overview:
The Senior Clinical SAS Programmer supports Clinipace data operations by providing programming services to Data Management. This position works under the supervision of management and will assist in various assigned programming and reporting tasks.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Typical responsibilities and opportunities include, but are not limited to:
- Program complex data checks and data reconciliation reports.
- Create special reports using SAS and other tools as requested from the Data Management department.
- Merge external data with EDC data and check for consistency.
- Transform SAS datasets, delimited data files, and other file types to Excel for data review.
- Automate these reports as necessary for most efficient use by the team members.
- Collaborate and communicate with a wide variety of team members, both situated locally and across the world and in different functional areas.
- Offer advice on efficiencies for presenting data for cleaning processes to more easily identify potential data issues in clinical trials.
- Mentor and assist more junior level programmers.
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No supervisory responsibilities
Job Requirements:
Education
- A Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Biostatistics, Statistics, or Computer Science or equivalent work experience to demonstrate knowledge and skills.
Experience
- 5 or more years’ experience providing advanced statistical programming services
- Advanced knowledge of data step, proc import, proc sql, and ods programming in SAS.
- Knowledge of clinical trial databases, including an understanding of data reports for clinical trials, is preferred.
- Experience identifying common data entry errors and creating reports to make querying the data points efficient for the data managers.
Skills/Competencies
- Data merge, transpose, sorting, other manipulation concepts.
- Proficient with SAS data programming and reporting using proc report and ods.
- Able to create programs that anticipate and identify potential problems that may or may not exist at the time of development.
- Ability to create visualizations using SAS graphics language is preferred.
- Understanding of UNIX, Windows, and Powershell commands preferred.
- Ability to review requests and determine best approach to maximize the usefulness of the report or listing.
- Ability to problem solve by using available resources with little oversight.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- Computer skills including a clear understanding of Microsoft Excel functions and formatting.
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Ability to effectively handle multiple projects at once
Capabilities
- Ability to work remotely as needed.
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