Principal Biostatistician; R​/Rshiny - EMEA

Principal Biostatistician (R/Rshiny - EMEA BASED)

Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full‑Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals.

We are agile and driven to deliver for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

• We are passionate about developing our people through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. By bringing together smart colleagues from around the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, drive impact for customers and set the pace of patient progress.

Job Requirements and Location

• Must be located in the UK, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, Ukraine, Netherlands, or France.
• Industry experience as a lead Biostatistician using R or Rshiny is required.

• Sets up and maintains an excellent R‑based computing environment.
• Adds missing features to apps and fixes bugs in existing apps.
• Screen the market for supplied data visualization tools and integrates internal/external apps into our working environment.
• Organizes and performs user trainings and is available for user support on demand.
• Is up to date with the latest technical possibilities available on the global market.
• Excellent R and R‑shiny knowledge and thorough experience in clinical data structures and programming with data.
• Expert in functional and object‑oriented programming.
• Knowledgeable in Java script/Typescript, HTML, WebGL.
• Experience in CUDA/GPU‑programming, cloud computing, Github, web‑hosting, machine learning.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively, clear in the presentation of complex issues.

• Serves as a statistical department resource, mentors biostatisticians on job skills, and oversees or develops training plans or materials for biostatistics associates.
• Conducts training sessions or otherwise trains new hires and enhances the skills of existing personnel.
• Directs the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects to ensure timely completion of high quality work.
• Provides independent review of project work produced by other biostatisticians in the department.
• Provides support across all statistical tasks during the lifecycle of the project, from protocol to CSR.
• Prepares or oversees the preparation of Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), including development of well‑presented mock‑up displays for tables, listings, and figures.
• May be responsible as Lead Biostatistician for the statistical aspects of the protocol, generation of randomization schedule, and input to the clinical study report.
• Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures.
• Reviews SAS annotated case report forms (CRFs), database design, and other study documentation to ensure protocol criteria are met and all data is captured as required.
• Implements company objectives and creates alternative solutions to address business and operational challenges.
• Acts as the biostatistics…