Senior Statistical Programmer with TABLEAU (Contract, Remote)

September 26, 2026

Job Description:

Location: Remote (home-based in the U.S.)

Work Time Zone: Eastern Time Zone (EST)

Employment Type: 12-month contract (renewable)

Please NOTE: This role requires over 8 years of hands-on SAS programming experience and expertise in Tableau within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.

Key Qualifications:

- Tableau Expertise: At least 4+ years of experience in creating, managing, and optimizing dashboards, reports, and visualizations in clinical trial data contexts.

- SAS Programming: Over 8 years of industry experience working with clinical trial data as a SAS/Statistical Programmer.

- Oncology Experience: 4-5 years of experience in oncology-focused clinical trials and overseeing CRO activities.

- Data Visualization: Recent experience in producing data visualizations using Tableau, such as real-time data review dashboards.

- Study Setup and Analysis: Experience in setting up studies and generating visualizations using Tableau, preprocessing clinical data using SAS, assessing the quality of analysis data, and performing cross-study analyses.

- Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills with staff in Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, and Global Drug Safety.

- Programming Support: Ability to provide programming support for generating tables, listings, and figures for assigned projects.

- CDISC Standards: Knowledge and application of CDISC standards (SDTM, ADaM) to submission activities.

- Validation: Experience in creating and validating safety tables, efficacy tables, and lab shift tables in line with SAP and mock layouts and validating datasets and outputs through double programming.

- Process Improvement: Participation in process improvement initiatives, internal programming tasks, and presentations to internal committees and boards.

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

- A master’s or bachelor’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant field or 10 years of industry experience.

- 4+ years of expertise in Tableau (mandatory).

- 8+ years of experience in statistical programming with clinical trial data, particularly using SAS software.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to thrive in a multidisciplinary team environment.

- Prior experience in oncology-focused clinical trials is preferred.

- Exceptional time management and organizational abilities to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality results.

Required Skills:

Tableau

Remote

Skills:
Analysis Skills, Biostatistics, Clinical Data, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, Clinical Trial, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Contract Research Organization (CRO), Cross-Functional, Data Quality, Data Sets, Data Visualization, Oncology, Organizational Skills, Pharmacovigilance, Process Improvement, Reporting Dashboards, SAP, Statistical Analysis System (SAS), Statistical Programming Languages, Systems/Internals Programming, Tableau, Team Player, Time Management

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