JUMP TO CONTENT

Clinical Data Transformation Lead

  1. Canada, United States
2025-116749
  1. Clinical Data Management, Clinical Data Scientist Lead, Clinical Systems, Data Standards Consultant
  2. ICON Strategic Solutions
  3. Remote

About the role

The role involves being a Clinical Data Transformation Lead in the Clinical Data Management area, focusing on enhancing data review and cleaning processes with innovative reports. It entails creating and implementing study- specific data validation procedures and reports, managing the connection to varied data sources, and ensuring efficient scheduling, monitoring, and maintenance on the Clinical Data platform. The role requires detailing key d handling requirements for scalable data management methods, and deriving study-specific monitoring and validati reports based on clinical protocols and amendments. Ultimately, this position aims to advance clinical data management and informatics by improving data integrity, efficiency, and capacity for expansion.


  • Engage closely with Global Development business units such as BDM, Safety, Precision Medicine, Pharmacometrics, Digital Health to deeply understand data quality, monitoring and validation needs and transform these insights into detailed business requirements for clinical data products.
  • Act as the primary point of accountability, responsibility, and expertise in interpreting Clinical Data business needs, meticulously translating and documenting these into comprehensive business specifications at the segment, modality, and company-wide levels.
  • Demonstrates a business understanding of study specific data to identify and assist in successful application of consistent data management processes and documentation across assigned programs, e., ensuring consistency across data quality plans.
  • Thoroughly document the clinical product development process, including data sources, methodologies, algorithms, and underlying assumptions, to guarantee transparency, reproducibility, and auditability of clinical data products.
  • Craft study-specific Data Quality specifications and define key Clinical data metrics to uphold the highest data quality and integrity standards across study lifecycles.
  • Prepare study-level reports within the Clinical Data Platform to support stakeholder activities and ensure the effective use of clinical study data.
  • Query small to large clinical data sets, manage data ingestion and delivery specifications, and data modeling requirements. analyzes and evaluates clinical data, recognizes inconsistencies, and initiates the resolution of da
  • Design clear, concise requirements for clinical reports and dashboards, establishing relevant metrics to convey data-driven insights Present findings in a compelling manner, customized for key clinical business functions such as Clinical Data Management, Pharmacometrics, Precision Medicine, etc.
  • Work towards preparing Common Data Model mapping & transformations to ensure data is usable in the analytical layer/ and comply with the Governance Committee strategy.

  • Have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Statistics, or a similar area is required.
  • Candidate should have substantial experience, ideally over 7 years, specifically within clinical data analysis and preferab within the BioPharma sector
  • Have hands-on experience with various clinical datasets such as EDC and non-crf dat combined with strong analytical abilities capable of managing diverse, large, and complex datasets, which ranges from fundamental research collections to detailed clinical information.
  • Possess a deep understanding of modern data analytic frameworks and technology, which includes expertise in Big Data structures, Lakehouse architectures, as well as contemporary techniques for data collection and amalgamation.
  • Have full understanding of clinical trial
  • Have a passion for championing and implementing clinical data
  • Should have practical experience with ETL processes, programming languages such SQL, Python, R, and familiarity with the AWS cloud infrastructure, including S3, Da Lake, along with analytics realms
  • Have strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and
  • Possess Excellent communication, and project management skills.


What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

  • Various annual leave entitlements
  • A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs
  • Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
  • Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being
  • Life assurance
  • Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others



Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits

At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON 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.

https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

List #1

Day in the life

A picture of chemists on a superimposed periodic table
5 reasons why you should consider a career in Clinical Research

Teaser label

Inside ICON

Content type

Blogs

Publish date

01/17/2025

Summary

Five Reasons Why You Should Work at a Contract Research Organization Contract research organisations (CROs) play a pivotal role in advancing medical science, offering career opportunities that are

Teaser label

If you’re seeking a rewarding and fulfilling work environment, a career at a CRO might be the perfect fit.

Read more
Man with headphones on looking at a laptop
Tips to make a lasting impression in a video interview

Teaser label

Career Progression

Content type

Blogs

Publish date

05/10/2024

Summary

Although many employers are returning to the office, we’re still seeing a mix of both video and in-person interviews in application processes. Early in 2020, the number of companies using video interv

Teaser label

Ace your virtual job interview with these proven video interview tips.

Read more
A Journey of Growth and Excellence: An ICON Employee's Testimonial

Teaser label

Our People

Content type

Blogs

Publish date

10/02/2023

Summary

An Evolution of Progress and Success: Zashan's story a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) Having a satisfying career involves finding a company that prioritizes progress, improvement, and chances f

Teaser label

Zashan, who began his journey with us in 2016, has shared his experience and insights.

Read more
View all

Similar jobs at ICON

Senior Developer, Clinical Data Reporting

Salary

Location

United States, Canada

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

Canada

United States

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

The Senior Reports Developer will be responsible for effectively supporting the Global Development Data Management organization by creating and maintaining a global library of standard data management

Reference

2025-117899

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Read more Shortlist Save this role
External Data Services Manager

Salary

Location

United States, Canada

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

Canada

United States

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

The Manager, Data Management - External Data Services will play a critical role in Clinical Development through ensuring the delivery of appropriately structured external data, including but not limit

Reference

2025-117898

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Read more Shortlist Save this role
Senior Clinical Data Science Lead

Salary

Location

Mexico

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

Mexico

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

As a Clinical Data Science Lead you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence. You will be partnering with a pharmaceu

Reference

2025-117880

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Magda Obregon

Author

Magda Obregon
Read more Shortlist Save this role
Clinical Data Acquisition & Strategy Manager

Salary

Location

United States, Canada

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

Canada

United States

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

The role defines and facilitates the participant data journey, identifying participant data sources, transport methods, ingestion to the ecosystem and mitigating potential challenges to ensure underst

Reference

2025-116748

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Kala Murphy

Author

Kala Murphy
Read more Shortlist Save this role
Clinical Data Science Lead

Salary

Location

Poland, United Kingdom, Romania, Spain, South Africa

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

Poland

Romania

South Africa

Spain

UK

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

As a Clinical Data Science Lead you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence. Working within one of our newest partne

Reference

2025-116309

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Jonathan Cunliffe Read more Shortlist Save this role
Clinical Data Science Lead

Salary

Location

London

Department

Biometrics Roles

Location

London

Remote Working

Remote

Business Area

ICON Strategic Solutions

Job Categories

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Data Scientist Lead

Clinical Systems

Data Standards Consultant

Job Type

Permanent

Description

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, biotech

Reference

2024-115380

Expiry date

01/01/0001

Matt Barker

Author

Matt Barker
Matt Barker

Author

Matt Barker
Read more Shortlist Save this role
View Jobs

Browse popular job categories below or search all jobs above