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🔥 13 hours ago

🌐 South Africa, Kenya, +2 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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ICON plc

10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Develop, validate, and maintain complex SAS and R programs for clinical trial analysis and reporting • Lead statistical programming activities for assigned studies, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery • Create and review ADaM datasets, Tables, Listings and Figures (TLFs), and associated programming specifications • Collaborate with statisticians, data managers, and cross-functional study teams to deliver regulatory-compliant outputs • Support submission activities including Define.xml and other regulatory deliverables • Ensure programming deliverables comply with CDISC standards, ICH-GCP guidelines, and sponsor requirements • Perform quality reviews and contribute to programming standards and process improvements • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior programmers • Contribute to study-level planning, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or a related discipline • 3+ years of statistical programming experience within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry • Strong experience programming ADaM datasets and generating Tables, Listings and Figures (TLFs) • Practical experience using SAS within clinical trials • Experience using R within a clinical research environment • Understanding of CDISC standards, including ADaM and SDTM • Experience supporting regulatory submissions and clinical study reporting • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based • Preferred: Experience acting as a lead programmer on studies or workstreams • Preferred: Oncology and/or Real World Evidence (RWE) experience • Preferred: Knowledge of Define.xml and submission package preparation • Preferred: Experience mentoring junior team members • Preferred: Previous experience working on GSK studies or within a sponsor-dedicated model

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

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