Principal Clinical Programmer (Rave + Custom Functions)

Principal Clinical Programmer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on core business packages, including

  Medidata, Rave, Oracle OC/RDC, Oracle Inform, and SAS

  .
• Utilize development tools to design, write, validate, and maintain software to meet specifications.
• Generate and maintain all required documentation, including specifications, coding, and validation efforts for annotated

  Case Report Forms (CRFs)

  and database creation.
• Proactively monitor applications for workflow alerts, system errors, and performance issues.
• Serve on project teams to coordinate and lead development activities for clinical programming projects.
• Keep project management informed of any issues that might impact project timelines or budget.
• Balance multiple task assignments and communicate resource needs to supervisors.
• Ensure high-quality deliverables by providing senior review of program-level and multi-study core deliveries for accuracy.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, training, and guidance to other department members.
• Collaborate with clients, peers, and lead programmers to clarify and finalize specifications.
• Manage project resources and proactively alert management of delivery and resourcing needs.
• Contribute to the update of standard operating procedures and work instructions.
• Oversee program-level clinical programming operations, which may include supervising a team of clinical programmers.

Skills Required

• A Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) or equivalent related education and experience.
• Must have experience with

  end-to-end clinical programming in Rave EDC

  .
• Strong

  Custom Functions programming experience

  .
• Must have programming lead experience.
• The ability to deal effectively with sponsors and internal customers at all levels.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple priorities in a highly dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in

  Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

  .
• Experience with programming languages such as

  PL/SQL, SAS, C#, or VB

  is preferred.
• The ability to travel up to 25% of the time.