Sr. Clinical Programmer

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Location: Morrisville, NC, United States

Job :-OTHLOC-1500-2

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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 and accelerate progress.

• Utilizes primary development tools including Medidata, Rave, Oracle OC/RDC, Oracle Inform, and OR SAS, and other supporting tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures. Generates and maintains all required documentation, including development of specifications, programs, and validation efforts in support of annotated Case Report Forms (CRFs), database creation, coding configuration, edit check procedures, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.
• Serves on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for clinical programming projects. Attends meetings, participates in discussions, uses an analytical approach to problem solving, focuses on deliverables, and provides constructive feedback. Keeps those responsible for project management informed of any issues that might impact project target dates, scope, or budget and escalates potential problems effectively and in a timely manner.
  
  Balances multiple task assignments and communicates needs to supervisor to obtain needed resources.
• Provides technology support to the clinical programming staff, Project Analysts, Data Managers, and other team members who design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications in a timely and productive manner following standard development procedures. This includes support of the development of specifications, coding, and validation efforts in support of annotated CRFs, database creation, coding setup, edit-check procedures, import setup and processing, export setup and processing, listings, and custom reports.
• Provides application administration and technical support as the subject matter expert on core business packages including Oracle Inform, MDSOL Rave, Oracle RDC, SAS, and supplemental packages such as migration mentor/review, reporting tools, and custom functions.
• Ensures high quality deliverables by providing senior review of study level, program level, and multi-study core deliveries for accuracy. Attends sponsor audits and assists with in‑progress audits.
• Reviews and provides input on study budgets and monitors scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders; manages and executes the change order to completion. Provides input and supporting details for change orders.
• Monitors applications for workflow alerts, system errors, and performance issues. Provides second‑tier help desk support, as needed.
• Performs system integration activities, application updates, and user acceptance testing.
• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to other department members based on expertise in specific skill sets. Collaborates with clients, peers, lead programmers, project teams, and/or requestors to clarify and finalize specifications; uses expanded technical skills to meet evolving project needs.
• Assists in project meetings and actively contributes and participates in departmental review meetings. Attends Quick Start Camps (QSCs) as the lead Clinical Programmer role for assigned studies.
• Leads clinical programming activities on three (3) to ten (10) concurrent studies depending on scope, similarity, program, and resourcing requirements.
• Manages project resources, proactively alerting management of delivery and resourcing needs.
• Possesses and maintains broad knowledge in the field of clinical programming and clinical data management by reading related literature, self‑training, attending training classes, attending professional meetings, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• Ability to deal effectively with sponsors and internal customers at all levels.
• Excellent…