Sr. Clinical Programmer- Spotfire at Syneos Health Clinical Solutions

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)