What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal SAS Programmer position at Katalyst CRO?
Company Description
Responsibilities:
Physical Demand:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods of time. Occasionally the employee may be required to lift or move at least 20 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences is hiring entry level candidates for several positions for contract research in Clinical trials of drugs, biologics and medical devices.
- We have a few immediate job opportunities available in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Research field. We work with University hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and recruiting partners.
Responsibilities:
- Cleaning and transforming raw clinical trial data from various sources to ensure accuracy and consistency for PK/PD analysis
- Writing SAS code to perform descriptive analysis of PK/PD data and statistical analysis of exposure-response relationships
- Data visualization:
- Creating clear and informative graphs and tables to effectively communicate PK/PD findings
- Ensuring data is formatted according to CDISC standards for regulatory submissions
- Validation and quality control:
- Performing thorough validation checks on programming code and analysis results to maintain data integrity
- Identifies problems and develops tools that increase the efficiency and capacity of the Clinical PK/PD Programming group
- Provide trainings to fellow programmers on industrial guidances, new or enhanced features of software tools that are relevant or applicable to job function above.
- Bachelor’s degree in Math, Stats, Computer Science or similar
- 7 years of industrial experience
- Must have advanced SAS programming skills, with knowledge of other statistical software like R being beneficial
- Knowledge of CDISC standards (SEND, SDTM, and ADaM) is required
- Experience visualizing/presenting data for internal stakeholders or clients
- Capable of implementing more advanced modelling and statistical procedures as requested by study team
- Strong understanding of clinical trial data and extremely hands on in data manipulations, analysis, and reporting/modelling of analysis results
- Including handling of data issues and uncleaned data
- Professional attitude, self-motivated, logical thinking
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong organization skills and ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously while achieving quality standards and meeting deadlines
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams
- Ability to problem solve and develop innovative approaches along with a drive to learn and master new techniques and technologies
Physical Demand:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods of time. Occasionally the employee may be required to lift or move at least 20 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
