DM SAS Programmer at Syneos Health Clinical Solutions

Position Overview

The SAS Programmer is responsible for executing programming activities in coordination with project teams with supervision. S/he will develop, create, verify/validate and maintain managing the programs for assigned projects in compliance with standard operating procedures.

Specific Tasks Would Include

• Participates in the validation of SAS programs and maintaining validation documentation.
• Familiarizes oneself with the SAS dataset structure and format catalog related to a given study.
• Familiarizes oneself with the documents associated with a given study.Such documents include (but are not limited to) edit check documents, SAS and database annotated Case Report Forms (CRFs), visit map/schedule of events, CRFs, code lists, statistical analysis plan (SAP), data management plan (DMP), clinical protocol, programming-specific documentation.
• Develops, programs and maintains:
• SAS edit checks and SAS edit check listings.
• Subject profile programming used for quality control of paper-based project databases.
• Data line listings as requested by the Sponsor and/or internal project teams.
• Clean subject programming used to identify clean subjects for a given project.
• JReview objects and registry of SAS datasets.
• SAS programs used to generate random samples of subject numbers and calculate database reliability rate during the quality control of paper-based project databases.
• Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) dataset programming.
• Programs that download external data received from various data sources.
• External data reconciliation programs.
• Programs that generate CRF and Query metrics.
• Ad-hoc Sponsor and internal programming requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study and 0-2 years data management or SAS programming experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possess an underlying understanding of data management practices and clinical data management systems (CDMS).
• Possess a basic understanding of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) domain and item names and the role of CDISC in drug development.
• Understands the sequence of running programs to ensure up-to-date data and to troubleshoot, debug programming problems and to identify data trends.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook as required.
• Effective verbal and writing skills; English + local language, if relevant.