Clinical Data Science Programmer

Analytics Developer

Location: Ireland or UK (homebased or office based)

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

The Role:

We are looking to recruit an Analytics Developer as part of a specialist team responsible for building reporting in the central monitoring platform.

The candidate will be working with Analytics Development Leads to define study specific deployment, data pre-processing and maintenance of data for analysis and process documentation.

• Use data mapping, extraction, transformation and load techniques to develop outputs for central monitoring analytics requirements.
• Design and build cross-page visualization solutions in enterprise visual analytics tools; build complex information models, including database write-back; and write moderately complex R and python scripts to support visual analytics solutions.
• May need to apply clustering, regression and forecasting methods as part of analytics solutions to clinical analytics problems.
• 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 trend detection.
• May need to work with stakeholders to elicit and analyze business requirements for low-to-medium complexity projects.
• Train new team members in foundation level analytics competencies and introduce new team members to the procedures and techniques relevant to the analytics development role.
• Communicate analytics requirements and solutions effectively to other team members and stakeholders.
• Adhere to clinical risk management department quality control procedures.
• Undertake other reasonably related duties as may be assigned from time to time.

What you will need:

• A degree / Master in Computer Science / Data Analytics / Similar
• 2-3 years working with a Data Analytics position
• Experience working in a CRO/ Pharma environment would be nice to have
• Analytical thinker with the ability to turn raw data into meaningful insights for partners within our central laboratory function
• Hands on experience using SQL, Tableau, Python etc.
• Excellent communicator and comfortable working with colleagues at all levels
   

Benefits of Working in ICON:

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.

At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs.  In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.

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