Clinical Data Programmer

For 75 years Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family you will have a significant impact on the health and well‑being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we do.

We help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

Do you have expertise in Clinical Data Programming

Have you got the desire to improve health and lives

Charles River Laboratories are looking to recruit for a Clinical Data Programmer as part of their Clinical Support Services function on a full time permanent basis. Working remotely (within the EU/UK only) you’ll be a highly skilled team member accountable for programmatically extracting, transforming and reporting any complexity of test and production clinical datasets in an accurate and timely fashion in accordance with applicable requirements and guidelines.

• Utilize code to produce production clinical datasets by working with team members in the operation of established systems and/or standardized code.
• Develop reusable code according to requirement specifications and following SOPs to produce clinical datasets for User Acceptance Testing (dummy and/or live data). Capable of integrating multiple complex inputs into the desired output.
• Prepare as needed full SDTM and/or ADaM datasets.
• Review data and code to verify integrity and consistency for completeness, accuracy and suitability including data adherence to protocol data coding integrity reliability of collection and interpretation.
• Lead in troubleshooting assigned generic code application code or specific study work. Ensure clinical datasets are prepared in accordance with study documentation such as a Data Transfer Agreement and with applicable regulations.
• Maintain organized, complete and up‑to‑date study documentation, testing and quality control documents and programs in compliance with company standards and regulatory guidelines.
• Review Data Transfer Agreements and/or Specifications.
• Keeps internal and external stakeholders informed of strategy plans and changes as needed to provide quality products and services.
• Responsible for assigned study schedules and for coordinating internal and external resources.
• Support application development and study code standardization.
• Manage complex workload from assigned study projects with priority clients and expedited timelines.
• Mentor peers and junior staff in support of business needs and team development.
• Design, develop, implement support, and administer validated and unvalidated systems that produce custom tables and graphs including statistical analyses and systems that promote business intelligence across the organization.
• Research, review and advise on new technology that may be used within the department. Draft and/or update relevant SOPs and other procedural documents.
• Able to function as team lead and support the Supervisor as needed with scheduling and other administrative activities.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelors Degree (B.S./B.A.); scientific discipline preferred.
• Significant experience with SAS; regulated environment or clinical research organization experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in SAS is required; including SAS macros, arrays, SQL, SAS Graph and knowledge with different output formats (e.g. .rtf .xml .xpt).
• Proficiency with a programming language other than SAS (e.g. .NET VBA) a plus.
• Familiarity with the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) a plus.
• Demonstrated excellent organizational skills.
• Basic familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Computer skills commensurate with Essential Functions including the ability to learn a validated system.
• Ability to work extended hours beyond normal work schedule to include but not limited to evenings, weekends, extended shifts and/or extra shifts sometimes on short notice.
• Ability to work under specific time constraints.

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