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Senior Clinical System Lead

  1. Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Spain, UK
2025-118351
  1. ICON Strategic Solutions
  2. Biometrics Portfolio

About the role

As a Senior Clinical System Lead you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.


We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Data Ingestion & Management Specialist to drive the participant data journey from source identification to ingestion, harmonization, and integration into our clinical data ecosystem. This role bridges technical and clinical teams, providing guidance on data ingestion strategies, vendor capabilities, and ensuring data quality and compliance throughout the study lifecycle.


What you will be doing:

  • Map and manage the clinical data journey by identifying data sources, defining transport methods, and creating end-to-end study data flow diagrams.
  • Lead technical aspects of data ingestion, reconciliation, and integration, particularly for non-standard and external data sources.
  • Perform study-level data risk assessments to ensure data relevance, integrity, and to guide study teams on mitigation strategies.
  • Collaborate with CROs, vendors, and internal stakeholders to define participant data requirements, technical specifications, and support digital health/eSource initiatives.
  • Contribute to internal initiatives focused on automation, digital protocols, data governance, and continuous process improvement across the data lifecycle

You are:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field (advanced degree a plus).
  • Minimum 4 years of experience in clinical data management and acquisition (7+ years preferred), ideally in the BioPharma sector.
  • Strong knowledge of clinical data sets, including EDC, non-CRF data, digital health technologies, and basic research data.
  • Proven experience with modern data platforms such as Big Data, Lakehouse architectures, and data integration tools.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with complex and diverse datasets.

 

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, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. 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.

 

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.

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