Senior Clinical Programmer

Role Description

Utilizes primary development tools including Medidata, Rave, Oracle OC/RDC, Oracle Inform, and/or SAS, and other supporting tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures.

• Generates and maintains all required documentation, including the development of specifications, programs, and validation efforts in support of annotated Case Report Forms (CRFs), database creation, coding configuration, edit check procedures, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.
• Serves on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for 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.
• Provides technology support to the clinical programming staff, Project Analysts, Data Managers, etc.
• Provides application administration and technical support as the subject matter expert on core business packages.
• 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 provides input on study budgets and monitors scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders.
• Monitors applications for workflow alerts, system errors, and performance issues.
• Performs system integration activities, application updates, and user acceptance testing.
• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to other department members.
• Collaborates with clients, peers, lead programmers, project teams, and/or requestors to clarify and finalize specifications.
• Assists in project meetings and actively contributes and participates in departmental review meetings.
• Leads clinical programming activities on three (3) to ten (10) concurrent studies depending upon scope, similarity, program, and resourcing requirements.
• Manages project resources, proactively alerting management of delivery and resourcing needs.
• Possesses and maintains a broad overall knowledge in the field of clinical programming and clinical data management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• 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%).

Benefits

• Company car or car allowance.
• Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision.
• Company match 401k.
• Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Company Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

• 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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.