Mandatory Skill: Experience in migrating SAS programs to R environmentKey Responsibilities:- Work closely with a cross functional team within biostatistics, data management, and analytics to transition applications written in SAS or VBASIC to R.
- Conduct code review and technical assessment of legacy programs and suitability for migration to R.
- Recode applications in SAS to R; Select appropriate R packages, functions, and algorithms to migrate legacy SAS programs to the R environment.
- Develop and maintain documentation associated with migration activities including programming specifications, validations plans, test cases, and reports.
- Support training and mentoring of experienced SAS users as they migrate to the R environment.
- Candidates must have experience programming in SAS and R directed towards analysis of clinical trial data and in supporting ETL pipelines from clinical data management to biostatistics.
- Ideal candidates will have experience supporting transition of statistical analysis programs from SAS to R.
- Strong programming experience within SAS, R, and SQL is required. Experience with Python, VBASIC, and a dashboard language such as PowerBI, Qlik, or Tableau is a plus.
- Experience with modern database platforms, such as SnowFlake and Delta DataLake, is desired.
- A minimum of 8 years in a statistical programming capacity, preferably within the medical device or biopharmaceutical industry."