Senior Programmer Analyst- Taiwan

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Job DescriptionPPD’s mission is to improve health. It starts as an idea to find a cure. It becomes a life saved. All in-between, it’s you! We know that meaningful results not only require the right approach, but also the right people. We invite you to re-imagine health promoting protocols with us, working alongside our talented, bright, and energetic teams.Our Biostatistics & Programming department are passionate about being data and technically agile and driving enhanced value for our clients and patients. We offer a wide variety of projects in basically all therapeutic areas. These range from NMPA submissions to multi-national global studies; from early phase proof of concept, phase III pivotal to US FDA submissions; from COVID-19 vaccine to Oncology indications; from dose escalation, adaptive designs to digital trials. Our team members often lead international Biostats teams to drive new therapies through clinical development stages and fill global unmet medical needs. We have a high standard in what we do, with fair and transparent team culture, as well as a fun friendly working atmosphere.At PPD we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We offer continued career advancement opportunities, award winning training and benefits focused on the health and wellbeing of our employees.PurposePerforms advanced biostatistics programming activities for the statistical and computational considerations of research projects. Works independently in a lead programmer or project lead role on complex studies and represents the department within the company or with clients. Provides training and guidance to junior team members.Essential Functions ：

• Acts as the lead programmer or project lead on studies of significant complexity, working directly with project team leaders and client representatives to conduct team meetings, develop and maintain project timelines, assess and forecast resources, and monitor study budgets.
• Assumes leadership responsibility as a contributing member of a multidisciplinary project team, communicating actively and frequently with other team members and ensuring adherence to working practice documents and SOPs.
• Independently creates, executes, maintains, and validates programs that transfer data across multiple data management systems or operating systems, combines data from a variety of sources and structures, generates and stores summary data from a variety of sources, generates reports or combines multiple databases and validates programs that generate listings, tables and figures using SAS.
• Manages and documents assignments to meet timelines and deliver high quality work, being familiar with any relevant contractual obligations or limits.
• Provides training, guidance, and project leadership to junior team members.

Job QualificationEducation And Experience

• MS/MA degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field and at least 4 years of experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job requirements or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification, and at least 6 years of experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job requirements.
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• In-depth understanding of one or more programming languages
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong problem solving and innovative skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills to effectively interface with teams and clients, including proficiency in the English language
• Capable of independently and effectively organizing and managing multiple assignments with challenging timelines
• Capable of adapting and adjusting to changing priorities
• Demonstrated positive attitude, enthusiasm toward work, and the ability to work well with others
• In-depth understanding of relational data base structure and complex data systems
• Demonstrated leadership ability and ability to work on a multi-disciplinary project team
• Solid project management skills to act as project lead across the most challenging and complex projects

Leader’s VisionWe would like to further expand our high performing team in Taiwan, with both home based and office based opportunities (our Taiwan office is located in Taipei 101 building). We want to offer the talented professionals and individuals in Taiwan a solid career choice that brings to them self-fulfillment as well as with opportunities to collaborate and lead at a global level.