Location: home-based in the US or Canada
Position Summary:
IQVIA has built a sponsor-dedicated, statistical programming team for a Biopharma client. We are expanding this team by hiring a Lead for R Programming efforts. Help with the long-term initiative of growing the R ecosystem for our client. R package development is an important skill for this role. Assist our client to be less reliant on SAS, and adopt the use of R for production and validation efforts of clinical datasets.
- Conduct analysis of clinical trial data using R – combine, manipulate, transform and summarize data.
- Create and validate R packages.
- Create process around package development and validation.
- Create and/or validate clinical study outputs and requirements consistent with data definitions, specifications and relevant study documentation (e.g. protocol, SAP, aCRF).
- Identifies problems and develops tools that increase the efficiency and capacity of the Statistical Programming group.
- Help establish the standards to generate clinical deliverable using R and train team members in R functions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Math, Stats, Computer Science, or Health Sciences is preferred.
- Experience with creation of clinical trial analysis (ADaM, TFLs) using R.
- Experience with various R packages/tools such as tidyverse (dplyr,ggplot2, haven, lubridate, etc.), tplyr, Shiny, Pharmaverse Admiral, metacore, metatools, rmarkdown, flextable.
- R package development experience is required.
- Knowledge of CDISC standards (SDTM, and ADaM) is preferred.
- Good knowledge of the tidyverse style guide.
- SAS programming and R Shiny experience is preferred.
- Experience visualizing/presenting data for internal stakeholders or clients.
- Capable of implementing more advanced modeling and statistical procedures as requested by study team.
- Strong understanding of clinical trial data and extremely hands on in data manipulations, analysis, and reporting/modeling of analysis results. Including handling of data issues and uncleaned data.
- Familiar with git and GitHub basic workflow.
- Professional attitude, self-motivated, logical thinking
- Ability to problem solve and develop innovative approaches along with a drive to learn and master new techniques and technologies.