Senior Principal Scientist, Biostatistics

Senior Principal Scientist, Biostatistics Skip to main content
* This site uses cookies to provide you with an optimal user experience. The cookies include Strictly Necessary and Functional cookies to ensure the site operates as intended (language preference, time zone and workload balance). These cookies are first party cookies, end with the session and are exempted from consent. In addition, this site also uses a Google Analytics Cookie to measure and improve the performance of our site.

All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. By clicking on the ‘Accept Cookies’ button, you are accepting this Performance cookie.  You may use this site if you click on the ‘Reject Cookies’ button. To revoke your consent of the Performance cookie, clear your cookies within your browser settings.*#Senior Principal Scientist, Biostatistics page is loaded## Senior Principal Scientist, Biostatistics Apply remote type:
Hybrid locations:
USA
- Pennsylvania
- North Wales (Upper Gwynedd):
USA
- New Jersey
- Rahway:
CHE
- Zurich
- Zurich (The Circle) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
August 1, 2026 (7 days left to apply) job requisition :
R407380
** Job Description
**** Senior Principal Biostatistician, Methodology Research
** In BARDS (Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences), a distinguished department within our company’s renowned Research and Development division, quantitative scientists, in partnership with other subject matter experts, apply state-of-the art scientific methodologies and tools to enable the discovery, development, regulatory approval, manufacturing, and marketing of medical drugs and vaccines for the benefit of patients and global human health.##
** Responsibilities
* ** Contributes to the development, validation, deployment, and maintenance of statistical computing solutions that enable rigorous, reproducible, and efficient use of advanced methodology.
* Provides strategic scientific leadership, originates and develops new methodology ideas.
* Publishes relevant statistical methodology in peer reviewed journals and presents at professional meetings; contributes influential publications, software, tutorials, or other public scientific resources that advance statistical practice inside and outside the company.
* Consults with clinical trial teams and other functional areas to implement advanced design and analysis including implementation through fit-for-purpose R packages, Shiny applications, web-based interfaces, and other validated computing tools.
* Partners with BARDS teams to design, develop, and deploy automation of workflows; works highly collaboratively across teams to deliver reliable, compliant solutions.
* Interacts with contractors, providing technical direction, review, and coaching for software development practices used by internal and external contributors.
* Collaborates on internal standards development, strategic initiatives and training.
* Maintains external relations and contributes to relevant professional activities/associations through leadership in statistical computing, open-source scientific software, interactive graphics, reproducible reporting, and related professional communities.
** Primary Activities
*** Independently identifies, anticipates and responds to technical and strategic problems arising in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials; proposes solutions and carries them out or consults to enable others to implement.
* Independently evaluates the appropriateness, reliability, and maintainability of available software for planned analyses and interactive applications; identifies needs for new or improved software; and leads or co-leads development in R and other relevant languages and technologies.
* Independently applies and implements advanced analytical methods to design and analysis of clinical trials and ensures that implementation is transparent, tested, documented, reproducible, and sustainable for broader BARDS use.
* Prepares oral and written reports to effectively communicate results of advanced methods to project teams, strategic initiatives, our company's Management, or regulatory…