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Senior Statistical Programmer (biotech/pharma)

NO REMOTE OR TELECOMMUTE. ALL WORK IS ONSITE.

THIS IS A CONTRACT ROLE: W2 OR CORP TO CORP.

 

Our Biotechnology client needs to hire a Senior Statistical Programmer for a long term contract based out of their South San Francisco office (position can also reside out of their west Los Angeles location). This company has experienced tremendous success with its oncology drugs in clinical trials and is ready to integrate resources with a clinical SAS programming background into the company.

You must have the ability to gather and analyze user requirements, program complex deliverables, work closely with study team and deliver consistent high quality results on time.

Responsibilities
Create SAS programs for data mining
Gather study team requirements and translate them into technical specifications for SAS programs
Program SAS data validation checks and listings to identify data discrepancies
Program SAS checks to integrate and reconcile data from external sources; including serious adverse events (SAE), lab results, ECGs, electronic patient records, medical devices and interactive voice response (IVR)) into the primary clinical database SAS datasets
Review Case Report Forms and formatting of SAS datasets extracts for accuracy and consistency
Provide programming support for Annual Safety Reports and Publications
Build standard SAS Macro library

Skills & Abilities
Excellent SAS 9.2 programming skills
Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks
Must be able to work under tight timelines
Possess excellent communication skills

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in related area

Knowledge of Oncology clinical trials

Experience with FDA drug submittal is a plus

Minimum of 8+years of SAS programming experience within the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry

Familiarity with CDISC/ Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), ICH/GCP, 21 CFR 11

SAS 9.2 (Datastep, Procedures, Macro, Proc SQL etc)
Familiarity with Data Management software (e.g. Medidata, Oracle Clinical)
Familiarity with coding dictionaries MeDDRA and WHODRUG

Principal / Senior Software Engineer (San Francisco OR Seattle)

This position could be filled either in our client’s San Francisco HQ office or their Seattle office.

 

Primary responsibilities:

  • Building high performance systems for personalization, optimization, and targeting
  • Coordinating with a research team to move prototypes into production
  • Contributing to algorithm design, research and scalability
  • Building systems with Hadoop and Spark (MLib, GraphX), Mesos, Marathon
  • Designing and implementing data pipelines to support data needs for machine learning (both batch and online), reporting, monitoring and alerting. (Crunch, Cassandra, HBase, Hive, Presto, no-SQL databases)
  • Software engineering in Java and optionally Scala
  • Working with rapid development methodologies such as Continuous Delivery and SCRUM
  • Automating tests at various levels, including end to end integration testing with synthetic known data, unit testing with JUnit, performance testing and tuning
  • Coordination with internal and external teams
  • Mentoring junior engineers

 

Minimum requirements:

  • BS/MS in CS, Electrical Engineering or foreign equivalent
  • At least 5+ years of software development experience
  • Expert in Java, Scala or any other object oriented language
  • Experience with HDFS and Spark
  • Proficient in data modeling with advanced knowledge of data structures
  • Additional language skills for scripting and rapid application development

 

Desired skills and experience:

  • Production experience with big data (high volume, high velocity) systems
  • Knowledge of numerical programming, data science, machine learning and/or statistics a strong plus
  • Familiarity with UNIX (systems skills a plus)
  • Working in a distributed environment and has dealt with challenges around scaling and performance

.NET ENGINEER

The .Net Engineer implements and maintains core entertainment-based accounting and payroll applications. The position works closely with senior management, business analysts, and lead or principal software engineers to design, develop, and maintain software components and products that support business applications.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to define requirements.
  • Create technical designs and architectural documents for implementation.
  • Learn complex relational database models and work within an established multi-tier application framework.
  • Lead and mentor a team of developers, perform code reviews, and hold daily scrum meetings.
  • Design, develop, implement, and maintain software components.
  • Identify opportunities to improve functionality.
  • Write complex SQL queries and stored procedures on SQL Server 2014.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of developing complex .NET-based applications using C# and .Net 3.5+.
  • 7+ years of developing applications using SQL Server 2008–2014.
  • Expert in .NET frameworks and features.
  • N-Tier application development expertise.
  • Strong analytical skills, attentive to detail, and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting.
  • Flexible to meet the demands of a rapidly changing environment.
  • Expert in developing in an SOA architecture (WCF, Web Services, REST).
  • Ability to work with teams in remote locations.
  • Performance expertise dealing with large datasets.
  • Skilled in ASP.NET, AJAX, JQuery, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, IIS, and JSON.
  • Experience in any of the areas below considered a plus:
    • NetTiers framework, ETL (Pentaho/SSIS), Deployment (InnoSetup).
    • Multi-tenant systems.
    • Windows Forms application development.
    • CodeSmith or other code generation frameworks.
    • Cloud Computing – Azure/AWS.
    • Visual Studio Online, Infragistics, Log4Net, Splunk, Symmetry Tax Engine.
    • Migration of .Net Frameworks, Conversion of SOAP to WCF.