Senior Clinical System Lead

ICON Clinical Research; Swansea; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave entitlements

Health insurance

Retirement planning offerings

Global EAP (LifeWorks)

Life assurance

Flexible country-specific benefits

Job summary

ICON Clinical Research, a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation, is seeking a Senior Clinical System Lead in the United Kingdom. You will oversee planning, implementation, and optimisation of clinical systems across global trials, partnering with sponsors, study teams, and technology partners to ensure data quality and compliant solutions.

You will lead system integrations, drive continuous improvement, and mentor junior staff while supporting business development

Qualifications

• Significant experience within Clinical Data Science, Clinical Systems, Clinical Data Management, or Electronic Data Capture (EDC) environments.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial processes, GCP, and regulatory requirements within regulated clinical research environments.
• Experience leading the implementation, management, and optimisation of clinical systems across multiple studies or programmes.
• Knowledge of clinical data platforms, data flows, integrations, and system validation principles.
• Demonstrated project leadership skills with experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leading the planning, setup, maintenance, and oversight of clinical systems used within global clinical trials.
• Acting as the clinical systems lead for assigned studies, partnering with internal teams, sponsors, and external vendors to ensure successful delivery.
• Translating protocol and study requirements into effective clinical system solutions that support data collection, review, and reporting activities.
• Providing oversight of system integrations, data flows, and vendor-managed technologies to ensure data quality and operational efficiency.
• Identifying risks, managing issues, and communicating project status to key stakeholders throughout the study lifecycle.
• Supporting study start-up activities, project meetings, system reviews, and customer interactions.
• Reviewing technical documentation, system specifications, and study deliverables to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Leading user acceptance testing and quality review activities for system enhancements and implementations.
• Mentoring junior team members and contributing to process improvement, innovation, and best practice initiatives.
• Supporting business development activities by providing subject matter expertise during proposals and bid defence meetings.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Health Informatics, Data Science, or related discipline

Job description

Senior Clinical System Lead

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.

As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.

As a Senior Clinical System Lead at ICON, you will play a critical role in the successful delivery of clinical trial systems that support global clinical research programmes. Acting as the lead systems expert across one or more studies, you will oversee the planning, implementation, maitenance, and optimisation of clinical systems, ensuring high-quality, compliant solutions that enable efficient study execution and data collection.

Working closely with sponsors, study teams, and technology partners, you will provide technical and operational leadership throughout the clinical trial lifecycle while driving continuous improvement and best practices across Clinical Systems.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading the planning, setup, maintenance, and oversight of clinical systems used within global clinical trials.

• Acting as the clinical systems lead for assigned studies, partnering with internal teams, sponsors, and external vendors to ensure successful delivery.

• Translating protocol and study requirements into effective clinical system solutions that support data collection, review, and reporting activities.

• Providing oversight of system integrations, data flows, and vendor-managed technologies to ensure data quality and operational efficiency.

• Identifying risks, managing issues, and communicating project status to key stakeholders throughout the study lifecycle.

• Supporting study start-up activities, project meetings, system reviews, and customer interactions.

• Reviewing technical documentation, system specifications, and study deliverables to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.

• Leading user acceptance testing and quality review activities for system enhancements and implementations.

• Mentoring junior team members and contributing to process improvement, innovation, and best practice initiatives.

• Supporting business development activities by providing subject matter expertise during proposals and bid defence meetings.

You Will Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Health Informatics, Data Science, or a related discipline.

• Significant experience within Clinical Data Science, Clinical Systems, Clinical Data Management, or Electronic Data Capture (EDC) environments.

• Strong understanding of clinical trial processes, GCP, and regulatory requirements within regulated clinical research environments.

• Experience leading the implementation, management, and optimisation of clinical systems across multiple studies or programmes.

• Knowledge of clinical data platforms, data flows, integrations, and system validation principles.

• Demonstrated project leadership skills with experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements

• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.

• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.

• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Life assurance

• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site (https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits) to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here (https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations)