Principal Statistical Programmer

Katalyst CRO; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst CRO in the United States (Edison, NJ) is seeking a Senior Statistical Programmer to convert specifications into SAS code and generate datasets, tables, listings, and figures for clinical trials. You will lead a programming team, manage timelines, and deliver regulatory submission deliverables while developing standardized macros and processing workflows.

The role requires deep SAS expertise, SDTM/ADaM knowledge, and the ability to mentor junior staff in a fast-paced, quality-focused

Qualifications

• Must have expertise in SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH.
• Knowledge of SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ACCESS and SAS/MACRO.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and ODS.
• Understanding CFR Title 21 Part 11 and FDA/ICH guidance.

Responsibilities

• Convert specifications into SAS code to generate datasets and Tables, Listings, and Figures outputs.
• Be responsible for overall project delivery, including clinical trial reports and other regulatory submission deliverables.
• Create statistical analysis outputs to be used in support of final reports, abstracts, posters, manu scripts and other clinical publications; support systems to produce electronic regulatory submissions.
• Assist in establishing standardized programming procedures and work instructions.
• Develop, enhance, evaluate, and validate standardized macros and utility programs to ensure that regulatory requirements are met through validation/compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain clinical processing workflow systems.
• Assist in the development of client proposal documents.
• Provide leadership, project specific training, stakeholder management, external sponsor support, resource management, and project management for the required programming tasks supporting clinical trial activities.
• Provide input into and negotiate statistical programming timelines. Ensure that timelines are adhered to and coordinate and lead a statistical programming team to successful completion of a study within given timelines and budgets.
• Trained in sponsor SOPs and disseminate knowledge to project team members as appropriate.
• Provide input into, and mentor statistical programmers to provide input into documents produced by other functions (e.g., biostatisticians, data managers, medical writers, etc.)
• Records handling (e.g., CFR Part 11), and electronic submission of clinical data to agencies (e.g., e-CTD guidance and CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards)
• Assist in updating/writing PROMETRIKA SOPs
• Develop tools in SAS for data analysis and reporting that comply with regulatory requirements.
• Develop specifications (e.g., metadata files), annotate CRFs and create SAS programs for the mapping of raw datasets to CDISC SDTM standards.
• Create define.xml files from metadata files for SDTM and ADaM
• Convert data received in other formats to SAS datasets.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Analytical skills

Project management

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Communication

Tools

SAS/BASE

SAS/STAT

SAS/CONNECT

SAS/ACCESS

SAS/MACRO

SAS/GRAPH

SQL

ODS

Job description

• Convert specifications into SAS code to generate datasets and Tables, Listings, and Figures outputs.
• Be responsible for overall project delivery, including clinical trial reports and other regulatory submission deliverables.
• Create statistical analysis outputs to be used in support of final reports, abstracts, posters, Manu scripts and other clinical publications; support systems to produce electronic regulatory submissions.
• Assist in establishing standardized programming procedures and work instructions.
• Develop, enhance, evaluate, and validate standardized macros and utility programs to ensure that regulatory requirements are met through validation/compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain clinical processing workflow systems.
• Assist in the development of client proposal documents.
• Provide leadership, project specific training, stakeholder management, external sponsor support, resource management, and project management for the required programming tasks supporting clinical trial activities.
• Provide input into and negotiate statistical programming timelines. Ensure that timelines are adhered to and coordinate and lead a statistical programming team to successful completion of a study within given timelines and budgets.
• Trained in sponsor SOPs and disseminate knowledge to project team members as appropriate.
• Provide input into, and mentor statistical programmers to provide input into documents produced by other functions (e.g., biostatisticians, data managers, medical writers, etc.)
• records handling (e.g., Chapter 21 of the US Code of Federal Regulation Part 11), and electronic submission of clinical data to agencies (e.g., e-CTD guidance and CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards)
• Assist in updating/writing PROMETRIKA standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Develop tools in SAS� for data analysis and reporting that comply with regulatory requirements.
• Develop specifications (e.g., metadata files), annotate CRFs and create SAS� programs for the mapping of raw datasets to CDISC SDTM standards.
• Create define.xml files from metadata files for SDTM and ADaM
• Convert data received in other formats to SAS� datasets.

Responsibilities

• Convert specifications into SAS code to generate datasets and Tables, Listings, and Figures outputs.
• Be responsible for overall project delivery, including clinical trial reports and other regulatory submission deliverables.
• Create statistical analysis outputs to be used in support of final reports, abstracts, posters, Manu scripts and other clinical publications; support systems to produce electronic regulatory submissions.
• Assist in establishing standardized programming procedures and work instructions.
• Develop, enhance, evaluate, and validate standardized macros and utility programs to ensure that regulatory requirements are met through validation/compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain clinical processing workflow systems.
• Assist in the development of client proposal documents.
• Provide leadership, project specific training, stakeholder management, external sponsor support, resource management, and project management for the required programming tasks supporting clinical trial activities.
• Provide input into and negotiate statistical programming timelines. Ensure that timelines are adhered to and coordinate and lead a statistical programming team to successful completion of a study within given timelines and budgets.
• Trained in sponsor SOPs and disseminate knowledge to project team members as appropriate.
• Provide input into, and mentor statistical programmers to provide input into documents produced by other functions (e.g., biostatisticians, data managers, medical writers, etc.)
• records handling (e.g., Chapter 21 of the US Code of Federal Regulation Part 11), and electronic submission of clinical data to agencies (e.g., e-CTD guidance and CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards)
• Assist in updating/writing PROMETRIKA standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Develop tools in SAS� for data analysis and reporting that comply with regulatory requirements.
• Develop specifications (e.g., metadata files), annotate CRFs and create SAS� programs for the mapping of raw datasets to CDISC SDTM standards.
• Create define.xml files from metadata files for SDTM and ADaM
• Convert data received in other formats to SAS� datasets.

Requirements

• Must have expertise in SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, and knowledge of SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH, SQL, and ODS
• Knowledge of SDTM, ADaM, FDA and ICH guidance
• Understanding of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21, Part 11 that covers the management of electronic records and electronic signatures in computer systems.
• Good organizational skills across individual projects and managing own and teamwork loads. Ability to organize, manage and complete multiple assignments with challenging timelines independently and effectively.
• Consistent experience as a lead statistical programmer on several concurrent projects
• Strong understanding of drug development, including knowledge of interfaces and interdependencies with other functions
• Strong mentoring skills as shown by leadership of projects and if applicable, junior team members.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Proven ability to learn new systems and function in an evolving technical environment.
• Ability to negotiate and influence to achieve results.
• Good presentation skills
• Good business awareness/business development skills (including financial awareness)
• Ability to create, maintain and define strategies to improve the efficiency of running a clinical trial.
• Work effectively in a quality-focused environment.
• Knowledge of other programming languages and database management software packages is a plus.