Senior Statistical Programmer

Company: AstraZeneca GmbH
Location: Boston
Posted on: March 29, 2025

Job Description:

The Senior Statistical Programmer I is a delivery focused role responsible for programming deliverables with quality and timeliness, following established standards and processes. This position requires technical skills and adequate industry knowledge to independently perform the programming tasks while using judgement about seeking guidance in complex situations. They can be responsible for supporting medium complex clinical study deliverables or part of project deliverables. It will act as a contributor on cross-functional teams, or a lead on small teams, to deliver continuous improvement.Typical Accountabilities

• Collaborates with other team members to provide programming support to deliver technical programming and information components of a study or a project deliverable
• Implements statistical programming aspects of the protocol or clinical development program
• Ensures high quality is built into own deliverables and the deliverables of other programmers on the team
• Programs independently with efficiency and quality
• Writes specifications and oversees completeness of relevant documentation
• Contributes to the development of best practices to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness within function
• Ensures compliance to standards and automation usage
• Initiates team activities and tasks
• Identifies and communicates risk within the assigned studies and/or projects
• Works cooperatively with study team members including but not limited to the statistician, lead programmer, data manager and study leader
• Works cooperatively with contract programming providers
• Contributes to technical initiatives
• Employs basic project management practices in managing programming aspects of drug or technical projectsEducation, Qualifications, Skills and ExperienceEssential
  • Degree in Mathematics (i.e., Applied Math, Engineering, etc), Statistics, Computer Science, Life Science or equivalent
  • Accomplished programming skills including macro language
  • Intermediate knowledge of the clinical development process
  • Good knowledge of industry standards
  • Implements project management practices
  • Ability to apply programming knowledge to problem solving
  • Ability to manage relevant documentationDesirable
    • Ability to proactively manage concurrent activities within their assigned study(ies) or project
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Keywords: AstraZeneca GmbH, Boston , Senior Statistical Programmer, IT / Software / Systems , Boston, Massachusetts