SAS Programmer

A Top 5 Pharmaceutical Company in Rahway, NJ is in need of a Contract Clinical Programmer.

This person will perform programming and validation to generate analysis datasets and tables for formal clinical reports. A high level of proficiency with SAS's data step, macros, and various procedures is necessary along with excellent verbal and written communications.Familiarity with the clinical trials process is helpful. Relevant programming experience in SAS required. Experience with transforming data in various formats (excel, CSV, ASCII) into SAS datasets is important.Experience cleaning and resolving data issues as well as merging data from different sources into a single integrated dataset is helpful. The incumbent may contribute to documentation. He/she should be prepared to present samples of past work that exhibit consistent, well-structured, mature and high quality SAS programming. He/she is expected to be competent with Microsoft Outlook, Work, and Excel. He/she is expected to conform to Merck's SOPS and programming practices. He/she is expected to work independently, but to function as part of a programming team, and will routinely take direction from a project programmer, manager or biostatistician.
REQUIREMENTS
Needs to have experience with SAS v8 in a Windows XP environment to support clinical trials

A BS in a related discipline (e.g., computer science, statistics, the biological sciences) with relevant job experience is required. An MS in Statistics is preferred but not necessary.