Pharmacoepidemiology Research Programmer (SAS expert)

Brigham and Women's Hospital; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, is seeking a Senior Research Programmer/Analyst to develop analytic datasets and perform advanced statistical analyses for pharmacoepidemiology and health services research.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, leveraging SAS as a core language and applying R/Python for complementary analyses. The role emphasizes reproducible research, code quality, and mentorship of junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, biomedical informatics, mathematics, engineering, or another relevant quantitative field required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• At least 3 years of relevant programming and data-analysis experience required; 5 or more years of experience in a healthcare, research, or similarly data-intensive environment preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in SAS required, including substantial experience with data management and analysis of large datasets.
• Proficiency in R and/or Python strongly preferred.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases strongly preferred.
• Experience working with large, complex, longitudinal datasets required; experience with healthcare claims and/or electronic health record data strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support faculty and other research staff in the development of analytic datasets and the conduct of statistical analyses for pharmacoepidemiologic, health services, and related research.
• Develop, validate, manage, analyze, and document large and complex healthcare datasets, including longitudinal health insurance claims and electronic health record data.
• Translate research questions and study protocols into efficient and reproducible programming workflows, including data cleaning, transformation, linkage, cohort construction, variable creation, and statistical analysis.
• Apply programming best practices, including systematic quality control, code review, version control, modular and reusable programming, and clear documentation to support reproducibility and collaboration.
• Contribute to the Division's programming and research-computing environment across SAS, R, Python, SQL, and related tools, including identifying opportunities to improve workflows, computational efficiency, and reusable infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with faculty and research staff across multiple ongoing and new research projects.
• Participate in programmer/analyst team meetings, mentor junior programmers/analysts, and serve as a technical resource to other members of the research team.

Skills

Strong programming and problem-solving

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Linux/Unix command-line

Git/GitHub version control

Communication of technical concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SAS

R

Python

SQL databases

Job description

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, is seeking a Senior Research Programmer/Analyst to develop analytic datasets and perform advanced statistical analyses for pharmacoepidemiology and health services research.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, leveraging SAS as a core language and applying R/Python for complementary analyses. The role emphasizes reproducible research, code quality, and mentorship of junior staff.