Associate Director, Specialist Programmer – Clinical Data Insight Jobs at India Full Time

JOB TITLE: Associate Director, Specialist Programmer – Clinical Data Insight

CAREER LEVEL: E

Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you

About astrazeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

Who we are:

The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

What we do:

A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

How we do it:

Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

Why we love it:

• As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
• A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
• We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

About the role

Play a critical role in making our pipeline accessible to patients.

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Programming? Would you like to your skills to impact all phases of drug development and

Regulatory interactions, in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the One for you

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development andcommercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

AstraZeneca’s Clinical Data & Insights group within the R&D Biopharmaceuticals Development Operation organization are looking for a

technical Clinical Data Automation & Tools developer.

Currently we mainly use SAS, but are expanding into other technologies and languages, to build our innovative tools and utilities supporting

Biometrics activities.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced individual within this growing group.

We are searching for an enthusiastic, innovative programmer, who can drive x- Functional automation and toolkits for Biometrics work (DM,

A&R, etc.), business planning tools, etc. which will help bring efficiencies and simplification to the business processes in the data collection

and analysis reporting area and beyond.

In this role as an Assoc. Director, Specialist Programmer, you will be accountable for quality, timely and efficient delivery of project

programming work and good information management. This position requires profound programming experience and excellent industry

knowledge to independently lead implementation of programming activities as well as lead other programmers. It is a leadership role that can

have a project or technical focus. It will initiate and lead multi-functional teams for process improvement.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

computer science and information technology for the development and maintenance of tools and related processes

supporting the analysis and innovation process in CDI.

• Drives the development of standard methodologies to improve quality, efficiency and/or effectiveness within function.

Demonstrates extensive programming expertise, keeps own knowledge of standard processes and new relevantdevelopments up to date.

Lead/Contribute to evaluation of tools and processes in collecting different data types for delivery of analysis and innovation in

CDI.

Accountable for the design, development and maintenance of single point processes and tools supporting analysis and

innovation within CDI.

Acts as a source of knowledge in area of expertise, defining and communicating important initiatives across department and

functions.

• Contributes to the function by supporting recruiting and/or providing training and mentorship.
• Finds opportunities to improve the methodology and provides practical solutions for problems.
• Represents AstraZeneca and its Biometrics at external events.
• Ensure computer system validation compliance for SASP production tools for audit ready state.

Essential Requirements

BSc or post graduate qualification (or local equivalent) in Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics, Life or Social Sciences or

equivalent experience.

• Experienced in leading efficiencies and improvements in programming utilities and tools.
• Extensive SAS programming expertise.
• Excellent Knowledge of Analysis and Reporting within Clinical Development.
• Experience of Data Management within Clinical Development.
• Superb Communication and Collaboration Skills.
• Ability to programming expertise to problem solving and quality focused.
• Truth seeking rather than success seeking.
• The ability to proactively drive innovations.
• Embracing of peer review.
• Understanding of compliance principles preferably supported with an audit experience.

Desirable:

Understanding of other programming languages (e.g. R, Java, Groovy, Spotfire, C/C++, VBA/VBS, .NET, Python, Pearl) would be advantageous.

• Project management.

Date Posted

22-Jun-2023

Closing Date

28-Jun-2023

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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