Senior Epidemiology Programming Lead

Cytel; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytel, sponsor-dedicated, embeds you with a leading pharmaceutical client while Cytel provides backing, governance, and support as you serve as Associate Director, Epidemiological Statistical Programming. This role blends hands-on programming with strategic leadership.

You will lead and mentor a team, develop complex SAS/R analysis pipelines, and ensure high-quality outputs across real-world evidence studies, collaborating with epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics.
• 8+ years of relevant statistical programming experience within pharma/biotech/CRO/healthcare/life sciences, with epidemiology/RWE/HEOR experience.
• Experience with Optum and Truveta.
• Advanced programming in SAS and/or R, with ability to develop/validate complex analytical programs and reproducible workflows.
• Strong experience with large healthcare data sources (claims, EHR, registries).
• Understanding of epidemiological study designs and statistical methods; applying programming techniques to observational/RWE research.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to epidemiological programmers.
• Lead hands-on statistical programming activities for epidemiological studies.
• Develop, validate, and maintain SAS and/or R programs for analysis datasets and outputs.
• Collaborate with epidemiologists, statisticians, data scientists, and stakeholders.
• Review deliverables for accuracy, reproducibility, and quality within timelines.
• Promote programming standards, reusable tools, and QA processes.
• Support regulatory submissions and publications as needed.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize processes across projects.

Skills

SAS

R

Epidemiology

Leadership

Mentoring

Data science

Real-world evidence

Programming standards

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics

Tools

SAS

R

Optum

Truveta

Job description

Cytel, sponsor-dedicated, embeds you with a leading pharmaceutical client while Cytel provides backing, governance, and support as you serve as Associate Director, Epidemiological Statistical Programming. This role blends hands-on programming with strategic leadership.

You will lead and mentor a team, develop complex SAS/R analysis pipelines, and ensure high-quality outputs across real-world evidence studies, collaborating with epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science.