Description

Senior Clinical Programmer

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

JOB SUMMARY

Serves as lead Spotfire Clinical Programmer to manage and support all functional tasks and project deliverables from single study assignments to large programs of studies. Manages multiple project timelines and deliverable whilst leading less experienced programmers. Designs, writes, validates, and maintains software to meet specifications. As senior technical subject matter expert, supports internal and external customers for assigned tools including but not limited to Spotfire, R and Python scripts within Spotfire, file transfer automation tools, and occasional use of other data manipulation/analysis languages such as SQL, HQL, and SAS. Proactively monitors applications for performance and/or system errors. Manages external application vendor issues, integrations, and implementations.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Utilizes assigned development tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures.
  • Create complex Spotfire Dashboards or Reports Using Tibco Spotfire.
  • Develop cross table, Bar chart, Tree map and complex reports which involves Property Controls, Custom Expressions, and scripting.
  • Develop specifications for visualizing CRF data sets such as routine listings, tables and figures.
  • Receive and process external data, and validate data sets, tables, listings, and figures.
  • Create data visualizations (Tables/Graphs) in SPOTFIRE based on ad-hoc requirements.
  • Move visualizations to production through development stages per existing process
  • Collaboratively engage clinical scientists, medical reviewers, and other professionals to provide compelling and efficient data review capabilities
  • Review selected panels and rules for design and usability, and also to prevent storage, reporting or standards issues.
• Authors and maintains all required documentation, including the development of specifications, programs, validation and UAT efforts in support of Spotfire products development, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.
• Serves on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for Spotfire clinical programming projects. Attends meetings, participates in discussions, uses an analytical approach to problem solving, focuses on deliverables, and provides constructive feedback. Keeps those responsible for project management informed of any issues that might impact project target dates, scope, or budget and escalates potential problems effectively and in a timely manner. Balances multiple task assignments and communicates needs to supervisor to obtain needed resources.
• Ensures high quality deliverables by providing senior review of study level/program level/multi study core deliveries for accuracy. Attends sponsor audits and assists with in-progress audits.
• Reviews and provide input on study budgets and monitors scope of assigned work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders; manages and executes the change order to completion. Provides input and supporting details for change orders.
• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to other department members based upon expertise in specific skill sets.
• Possesses and maintains a broad overall knowledge in the fields of data analytics, clinical programming and clinical data management by reading related literature, self-training, attending training classes, attending professional meetings, etc.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• The ability to deal effectively with sponsors and internal customers at all levels.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple priorities in a highly dynamic environment
• Experience working in a matrix-structured environment is preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), email, and Voicemail
• Experience with programming languages, such as PL/SQL, SAS, C#, or VB preferred.
• Ability to travel as necessary (up to 25%)

SUMMARY OF RELEVANT SKILLS

• Spotfire 10.x and later
• Python for automation within Spotfire
• R scripting for data enrichment and analysis within Spotfire
• Analysis of clinical data sets (CRFs, labs, etc.)
• Data acquisition planning
• Merging data from multiple sources
• SAS programming including data analytics
• Query languages such as SQL, HQL, Spark
• Gathering analytics requirements and designing visualizations
• User interface design and configuration using DHTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Spotfire administration and architecture
• Clinical Database design and programming (such as Rave EDC)

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health .

Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.