Statistical Programmer (m/w/d)

Overview

IQVIA provides scientific services spanning clinical trials, real world evidence, and consulting in all areas of the product lifecycle. IQVIA has two teams focused exclusively on amplifying the patient’s voice and enhancing their experiences across their health journey: the Patient-Centered Solutions and Connected Technologies (PACT) team, and the Instrument Licensing Solutions and Patient and Site Strategy (ILS & PASS) team. These teams work closely together to generate patient experience data (PED) through clinical outcome assessments (COAs; including digital health technologies), qualitative research, and patient preference research.

The ILS & PASS team has a small group dedicated to thought leadership and COA instrument development. This “science team” is focused on (a) ensuring that sound scientific principles permeate through the research completed by the PACT and ILS & PASS teams, and (b) leading the development, validation, and qualification of COA instruments to collect reliable and interpretable data from patients in medicines development and routine clinical care.

The ILS & PASS science team comprises dedicated qualitative scientists and COA development scientists. Presently it does not have a team of dedicated statisticians and psychometricians. Owing to the large body of work – mostly internally funded – the team is recruiting for a Statistics and Psychometrics Lead, one entry-level Statisticians/Psychometrician, and one Statistical Programmer to support the teams’ activities, as described below.

The Statistician/Psychometrician and Statistical Programmer roles will report to the Statistics and Psychometrics Lead. The Statistical Programmer role is described below.

Role & Responsibilities

The Statistical Programmer will be expected to:

• Empirically develop scoring rules and program scoring algorithms for existing COA measures
• For instruments being added to IQVIA ILS library, generate standard scoring documentation, program simulation datasets, Data Quality Evaluation (DQE), and scoring of domains on these datasets
• Implement new statistical features in the random generation of data to simulate real-world instrument data with certain psychometric properties
• Implement new, more advanced statistical capabilities in user tools (Insights Hub, PROCore)
• Work cross-functionally with non-statisticians and psychometricians in the PACT and ILS & PASS teams
• Provide programming support for the development of new COA measures and endpoints
• Program classical and modern psychometric analyses and meaningful threshold analyses
• Program high frequency and continuous DHT data
• Collaborate with data scientists to support algorithm validation and verification of digital measure performance across diverse datasets and devices

About You

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Candidates must have: (a) statistical and psychometric research skills; and (b) strong computer skills, including Base SAS with macro, R skills, and API experience. Connecting to databases with SAS/R and programming with validation/QC in a regulated environment would be an advantage.
• Candidates should demonstrate: (a) excellent written and oral communication skills including grammatical/technical writing skills; (b) critical attention and accuracy with details; and (c) strong individual initiative, organizing skills, and commitment to quality.
• Candidates must be able to: (a) work within a team environment and establish and maintain effective working relationships; (b) confidently communicate with, and effectively present information to, internal and external teams; and (c) work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and projects.
• Candidates should have extensive familiarity and demonstrable experience with AI tools and their application to the topics mentioned above.

Education and experience

• Candidates should have a relevant qualification in statistics or psychometrics, experience in statistical programming, and an interest in patient-centered research (including COA and/or DHT) and clinical research (pharmaceutical, or healthcare industry).
• Consulting experience with pharmaceutical companies is desirable.

Physical requirements

Candidates can expect to use telephone and face-to-face communication extensively, requiring accurate perception of speech. Extensive use of a keyboard is also expected, requiring repetitive motion of fingers. Candidates will also need to sit for extended periods of time daily, and travel as required.

Notes

This role is not eligible for UK visa sponsorship.