Statistical Programmer III/IV

Summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. They are seeking a Statistical Programmer III/IV to provide statistical programming expertise within SCHARP by coordinating with statisticians to write efficient, reusable, and easily maintainable code that accesses, analyzes, and reports data descriptives and analyses.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document requirements for developing or modifying existing programs and systems
• Define and edit mock tables, listings and figures (TLFs) and analysis dataset specifications
• Generate, document, and maintain analysis datasets
• Develop scripts for wrangling / data transformation
• Create ad hoc, standard and study-specific reports (e.g. SMC, DSMB, SMB, Assay QC); may perform cross- study reporting
• Test and de-bug programs and maintain version control on production programs and scripts
• Design and develop new work instructions (WIs) and updates to existing WIs
• May coordinate efforts to standardize WIs or processes across studies
• Develop and maintain automation of routine analysis data and reporting tasks
• Contribute to good programming practices, and cross-group programming initiatives and code libraries
• Work with clinical programmers, lab programmers, statisticians, and other statistical programmers to resolve data quality, processing, and analysis issues
• Contribute to mentoring and training of junior Statistical Programmers and may supervise as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or directly related fields
• 4 years of experience as SAS or R programmer on PC/Unix platform
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a matrix management environment as a member of several project teams
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize work assignments
• Knowledge of and experience with clinical trials research data or experience in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field
• Knowledge of and experience with biostatistics or statistical analyses in a clinical trials setting
• Advanced SAS or R programming skills
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities
• Knowledge of SAS or R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control
• 5 years of experience in SAS or R programming, with additional experience in other programming languages including a scripting language; R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn)
• 4 years of experience in support of clinical trials, in a clinical research setting or other health research setting, or in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field
• Knowledge of both SAS and R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities
• Advanced SAS or advanced R programming skills
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control
• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a scientific, technical, or health-related field
• Preferred experience programming in support of clinical trials, statistical programming in a clinical research setting or other health research programming support
• R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn)
• Knowledge of CDISC standards (SDTM and ADaM)
• Experience using version control tools

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Statistics, Computer Science, or directly related fields
• 4 years of experience as SAS or R programmer on PC/Unix platform
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a matrix management environment as a member of several project teams
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize work assignments
• Knowledge of and experience with clinical trials research data or experience in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field
• Knowledge of and experience with biostatistics or statistical analyses in a clinical trials setting
• Advanced SAS or R programming skills
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities
• Knowledge of SAS or R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control
• 5 years of experience in SAS or R programming, with additional experience in other programming languages including a scripting language; R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn)
• 4 years of experience in support of clinical trials, in a clinical research setting or other health research setting, or in data wrangling /transformation within a health-related field
• Knowledge of both SAS and R (including graphics experience) and other programming languages
• Strong reporting and SAS macro or R package development abilities
• Advanced SAS or advanced R programming skills
• Ability to use Perl or other scripting languages for text manipulation and automated job control

Nice to Haves

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a scientific, technical, or health-related field
• Preferred experience programming in support of clinical trials, statistical programming in a clinical research setting or other health research programming support
• R programmers will have experience using version control tools (e.g. git or svn)
• Knowledge of CDISC standards (SDTM and ADaM)
• Experience using version control tools

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Medical/vision
• Dental
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life
• Disability
• Retirement
• Family life support
• Employee assistance program
• Onsite health clinic
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid vacation (12-22 days per year)
• Paid sick leave (12-25 days per year)
• Paid holidays (13 days per year)
• Paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks)