Contract Programmer

The Contract Programmer is responsible for managing, planning and tracking the Statistical Programming activities and managing the Statistical Programming staff and resource to ensure corporate activities and goals are met. The Contract Programmer will build and enforce the appropriate standards in the department. Essential functions include overseeing the work of direct reports, maintaining good communication with data management and clinical operations, and exercising independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Designs, develops, evaluates and modifies computer programs to analyze and evaluate clinical data. Oversees and manages the work flow of generating study specific and ad-hoc clinical data listings, summary tables and figures. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments. Performs data analysis using primarily the SAS programming language for the summary and interpretation of clinical trial data. Manages creating CDISC SDTM and ADaM files, SAS export files and Define.xml use for Electronic Submission from the data received in non-standard form from various sources. Reviews Data Management Plan, Data validation plan and edit check specifications, and interacts with Statisticians and other clinical team.