Clinical Programmer II

Syneos Health, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Clinical Programmer to join their nationwide team. This role focuses on utilizing various tools to develop and maintain clinical software that supports essential medical research projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in programming and excellent communication skills, contributing to impactful therapies that change lives.

Benefits

Career development and progression

Total rewards program

Inclusive culture and diversity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent related education and experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes development tools to design, write, and validate software.
• Generates and maintains required documentation.
• Coordinates and leads development activities for clinical programming projects.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent related education and experience

Tools

Oracle RDC

Oracle Inform

Medidata

SAS

Rave

Microsoft Office Suite

PL/SQL

C#

VB

Job description

Updated: May 31, 2025
Location: Nationwide, United States
Job ID:24006566

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilizes primary development tools including Oracle RDC, Oracle Inform, Medidata, Rave, SAS, and other supporting tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures.

• Generates andmaintains all required documentation, including the development of specifications, coding, and validation efforts in support of annotated Case Report Forms (CRFs), database creation, coding configuration, edit check procedures, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.

• Serves on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for clinical programming projects. Attends meetings, participates in discussions, uses an analytical approach to problem solving, focuses on deliverables, and provides constructive feedback. Keeps those responsible for project management informed of any issues that might impact project target dates, scope, or budget and escalates potential problems effectively and in a timely manner. Balances multiple task assignments and communicates needs to supervisor to obtain needed resources.

• Ensures quality deliverables by providing review of study level core deliveries for accuracy. Attends sponsor auditsand assists with in-progress audits.

• Reviews and provide input on study budgets and monitors scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders.

• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to other department members based upon expertise in specific skill sets. Collaborates with clients, peers, lead programmers, project teams and/or requestors to clarify and finalize specifications, and uses expanded technical skills to meet evolving project needs.

• Assists in project review meetings and assists with departmental review meetings.

• Attends Quick Start Camps (QSCs) as the lead clinical programmer for assigned studies.

• Leads clinical programming activities on up to eight (8) concurrent studies depending upon scope, similarity, program, and resourcing requirements.

• Manages project resources, proactively alerting management of delivery and resourcing needs.

• Possesses and maintains a broad overall knowledge in the field of clinical programming and clinical data management by reading related literature, self-training, attending training classes, attending professional meetings, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, In lieu of Bachelor’s degree, equivalent related education and experience.

• The ability to deal effectively with sponsors and internal customers at all levels.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform.

• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple priorities in a highly dynamic environment

• Experience working in a matrix-structured environment is preferred

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), email, and Voicemail

• Experience with programming languages, such as PL/SQL, SAS, C#, or VB preferred.

• Ability to travel as necessary (up to 25%)

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health (Nasdaq:SYNH) is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We support a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.