Hybrid Senior Statistical Programmer, Real World Evidence

at MSD

• Job title: Senior Statistical Programmer, Real World Evidence
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $114,700 - $180,500 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: SDLC, SQL, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, North Wales, United States

About the role

• Senior Statistical Programmer in BARDS enabling the development and marketing of medical drugs and vaccines. Collaborating with quantitative scientists to apply scientific methodologies in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• enable the discovery, development, regulatory approval, manufacturing, and marketing of medical drugs and vaccines for the benefit of patients and global human health

Requirements

• MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Life Sciences, Engineering or related analytical field plus 3-7 years experience in multiple programming languages including SAS and R
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Life Sciences, Engineering or related analytical field plus 5-9 years experience in multiple programming languages including SAS and R
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to negotiate and collaborate effectively
• Effective written, oral, and presentation skills
• Team oriented with demonstrated history of teamwork and collaboration; enjoying diversity, respect and integrity
• Effective knowledge and experience in developing analysis and reporting deliverables for R&D projects (data, analyses, tables, graphics, listings)
• Demonstrated success in the assurance of deliverable quality and process compliance.
• Good working knowledge of reporting processes (SOPs) and software development life-cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to comprehend data analysis plans which may describe observational research and statistical methodology to be programmed and turn into actionable code; understanding and implementation of observational research or statistical terminology and concepts; implements observational methods not currently available through commercial software packages.
• Expertise in statistics, clinical and data management concepts as applied to drug/vaccine development within the pharmaceutical industry;
• A project leader; completes tasks independently at a project level, determines approach and ensures consistency, manages timelines; ability to communicate clearly to key stakeholders
• Ability to extend existing or develop new programming algorithms
• Ability to quickly and effectively learn new program techniques and data structures; capacity to seamlessly assimilate to new projects
• Unix operating system experience; SQL experience; systems and database experience
• Thrives working in an exploratory environment, handling non-standard data in a variety of formats with minimal requirements
• An interest to advance career by investing in development activities and taking on tasks with increasing levels of challenge and responsibility.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days