Analytics Development Lead

Analytics Development Lead

(Can be located in Dublin, Paris or Warsaw)

Are you looking for an exciting career development opportunity? Do you want to learn more about clinical data visualisation and analytics?

ICONIK is at the cutting edge of ICON's clinical data analytics offering to sponsors, and we are looking for a clinical data professional to join the ICONIK development team as an Analytics Development Lead (ADL). The ADL is responsible for managing the delivery and ongoing maintenance of ICONIK solutions for central monitoring, which includes risk-based monitoring, medical data review and safety monitoring.

The work is varied and interesting and involves requirements analysis and solution design. We make extensive use of SAS and use TIBCO Spotfire for data visualisation. The team also does non-study project work to improve ICON's clinical data analytics capabilities and grow our business in clinical risk management.

What we need you to do

• Use a range of elicitation techniques to mine business requirements for clinical analytics projects and analyse the information gathered to identify essential business needs and dependencies
• Initiate, build and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders to provide information, seek feedback and solve problems as and when they arise
• Lead the delivery of multiple, parallel analytics projects, including complex study deliveries, documenting all development and project management activities in accordance with standard operating procedures
• Work with central monitoring stakeholders to define new key risk indicators (KRIs); automated, analytics-based approaches to KRI aggregation; and new analytics-driven approaches to safety signal and data anomaly detection
• Prepare and execute formal presentations for internal and external customers to communicate analytics approaches, designs and delivery plans
• Exemplify ICON's values, which centre on accountability and delivery, integrity, partnership with clients and cross-functional collaboration

Key qualifications and experience we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in computer science, mathematics, life sciences or information management
• Clinical research industry experience
• Working knowledge of the central monitoring of clinical trials, including the use of key risk indicators and analytics-driven approaches for monitoring data quality and patient safety
• Experience documenting analytics requirements, business rules and output/technical specifications for adoption by stakeholders and developers
• Experience in clinical data mapping, extraction, transformation and load processes

Skills and competencies where particular strength is required

• Data tools such as SAS, R, SQL, TIBCO Spotfire and Tableau (all highly desirable) and IronPython, PL/SQL, XML, JSON, Excel/VBA, C# and RegEx (nice to haves)
• Data concepts such as relational databases, data virtualisation and electronic case report forms (all highly desirable) and APIs, machine learning, clustering, regression and forecasting (nice to haves)
• Project management, system development lifecycle and requirements elicitation and analysis
• Collaboration, client relationship management and knowledge management
• Verbal and written communication
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Drive and self-development
• Mentoring and coaching
• Learning new technologies, applications and techniques