Senior Principal Statistical Programmer (SAS Viya, R, Python - Europe Only) in London

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.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

• 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. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities:

• Migration support to SAS Viya.
• Provides statistical programming technical support and expertise across the Biostatistics function and other departments as needed.
• Uses SAS or other software to develop custom programming code to generate summary tables, data listings, graphs and derived datasets as specified in the statistical analysis plan and programming specifications.
• Proposes and leads the development of process improvements, programming tools and macros for standardization and efficiency, and the development of new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging customer needs.
• Analyzes information and develops innovative solutions to programming and data analysis challenges across the department.
• Reviews, provides input, and promotes standardization of CRFs, databases, Statistical Analysis Plans and mock shells within a project or therapeutic area, or across a program.
• Mentors other members of the Biometrics Department in the use of traditional, new, and novel approaches in delivering analytics to sponsors and regulatory agencies through the development and presentation of training courses and one on one discussion.
• Understands and enforces compliance with company, regulatory, and industry standards, within and across projects or programs.
• May develop or review specifications and may support any kind of statistical programming activity.
• Negotiates and establishes accurate time estimates for completion of projects with internal team members and statistical programming management, provides regular status updates, and completes projects within agreed upon timeframe.
• Maintains well organized, complete, and up-to-date project documentation, testing, and verification/quality control documents and programs ensuring inspection readiness.
• May act as primary customer interface representing the department at client meetings; may present status updates at Senior Management meetings.
• Displays willingness to work with others, holds project team members accountable, and leads projects and initiatives as necessary to meet the needs of the business.
• May provide project oversight to Lead Statistical Programmers across one or more programs.
• Maintains extensive working knowledge of clinical drug development, industry standards, and electronic submission requirements.
• Actively participates in industry standards organizations and provides regular updates to the Biometrics Department on upcoming changes to those standards. May contribute to presentations at industry conferences and roundtables.
• When serving as a subject matter expert for CDISC and other industry and regulatory requirements, performs compliance reviews of project deliverables for CDISC deliverables including SDTM and ADaM specifications and datasets as well as any regulatory required documents (i.e. DEFINE.XML).
• May lead or support the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), guidelines, policies, and/or procedures; Follows applicable SOPs, WIs, and relevant regulatory guidelines (e.g. ICH).
• Supports business development activities by contributing to proposals, requests for information, budgets, and attending sponsor bid defense meetings.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
• Minimal travel may be required.

Summary: For this role, we are looking for a highly experienced profile that combines strong technical expertise with clinical study knowledge. This position is critical to support complex project and submission activities, ensure the efficient use of standards and tools, and actively contribute to the further development of programming processes and tool landscape. A key requirement is support for the migration to a new SCE (SAS Viya), where fast adaptability, creative and pragmatic problem-solving, and the ability to quickly understand working processes and environment are essential. The role requires someone who can operate effectively in a dynamic setting and provide immediate value. In addition to extensive Statistical Programming and technical experience, the ideal candidate should bring regulatory understanding, leadership capabilities, and knowledge of multiple programming languages (SAS, R, Python and/or Java). Experience with SAS Viya is a must as well as strong SAS Macro knowledge.