What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior SAS Programmer position at Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences?
Responsibilities:
- The senior programmer position will be responsible for manipulating large databases and generating reports to enable analysts to explore real world healthcare data assets.
- Candidates must have excellent SAS and SQL programming skills and the ability to implement complex logic.
- Candidates must be comfortable with creating complex analysis data sets derived from various data sources with a careful eye for outliers and errors.
- Prior experience building patient cohorts and evaluating patient healthcare events in large databases and using observational research methods such as epidemiology and statistical methods is strongly desired.
- Strong communication, time management, enthusiasm and documentation skills are essential.
- Master's degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Computer Science, or other subjects with high statistical content.
- Experience with advanced statistical methods such as survival and regression.
- Experience with real world healthcare claims and EHR data such as MarketScan, Optum and Medicare databases.
- Minimum five years SAS statistical programming experience.
- Database programming using SQL.
- Hands on CDISC/SDTM/ADaM experience.
- Experience using the OMOP common data model.
- Training or experience with Python, R, Databricks or other cloud-based software.
- Training or experience in epidemiological methods.
